Number 18
Queer Corazón: Theorizing Love, Sex, and the Body
From Hispana to Chicana: Lesbian to Queer or Torna-atrás
This biographical essay exams the personal identificatory markers used for a life lived across seven decades. It deploys various caste, racial, and ethnic labels following each era of personal growth or changing discernment. It historicizes categories, from my traditional New Mexican, “Hispanic” upbringing toward meaningful engagement with the subtleties of mixed-race ethnicity and LGBTQIT2 identity. Just as the racial markers have changed over time and became more complex, so have those pertaining to sexuality. The personal essay attempts to marry these journeys into a more unified effort to understand and historicize a nuevo mejicana’s Chicana lesbian historical experience in the United States.
Initial page
21
End page
45