âTo survive in the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras [without borders], be a crossroads.â đ
in our second session, the
@vivir_sabrosa reading group dives into Gloria AnzaldĂșaâs borderlands.
the crisis of empire is here, in our streets lenapefuckinghoking. this system (colonial, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal, eco-genocidal) has caused the exodus of millions of inhabitants of the Global South in search of better living conditions. day after day, thousands of migrants try to cross the border from South to North, from Mexico to the United States, not to fulfill the âamerican dreamâ as many say, but to demand their share of wealth from the empire. the crisis has erupted and reached here, to the farthest reaches from the South, to the north of the North: ICE hunting brown children in our neighborhoods âlike animalsâ, homelessness on trains and record-level overcrowding in shelters, immigration control around every corner, increased institutional racial profiling... all this accompanied by outrage and justified mass protestsâleaving innocent people deadâagainst the inhumane treatment of immigrants; because no one is illegal on stolen land.
80 years ago, Gloria AnzaldĂșa suffered firsthand the violence of a border imposed on her ancestral land, stolen by the United States: Tejas-AztlĂĄn of Mexico. her family, her community, banished from their own land and culture while living there; persecuted as illegal immigrants and even deported from their own homeland. however, Gloria never saw herself as a victim, and took from her feminist mestiza fight the most sublime blends to overcome oppressionâŠ
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friday, february 27, 6:30pm in bushwick lenapehoking, ny.Â
*** Vivir Sabrosa reading group, as a starting point, politicizes the word and advocates for the language of tenderness and reciprocity. it is inspired by traditions and practices of non-verbal language. in our meetings, we try to create feelings of well-being, and we encourage readers to let go of their bodies, to interpret in other ways and to dance with us at the end of it all