Number 18
Queer Corazón: Theorizing Love, Sex, and the Body
Mujeres y Madness: Deconstructing Chicana Teoria on Locura, Queerness, and Love
Topic
In “Mujeres y Madness: Deconstructing Chicana Teoria on Locura, Queerness, and Love,” I explore the intersections of Chicanidad, queerness, and mental health as I navigate locura as a "typology in Borderlands." Drawing from queer Chicana feminist theorists, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba, I explicate locura teoria within Chicana scholarship. Embracing my locura, my obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the journey through madness and sanity, this essay traces my Coactlicue State. Utilizing Anzaldúa’s literature and archives as a backdrop to my mental health, I analyze locura, sanity, and love within Anzaldúa’s writing and my journal entries during the 2020-2021 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through my mental destruction and reconstruction, I accept OCD as the locura and neurodivergent Shadow-Beast inside my mind.
Initial page
249
End page
269