Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive. Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear.'Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers' (1981) '(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces' from This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (2002), p.

Most of us dwell in nepantla so much of the time it’s become a sort of “home.” Though this state links us to other ideas, people, and worlds, we feel threatened by these new connections and the change they engender. Nepantla es tierra desconocida, and living in this liminal zone means being in a constant state of displacement-an uncomfortable, even alarming feeling. Transformations occur in this in-between space, an unstable, unpredictable, precarious, always-in-transition space lacking clear boundaries. Bridges span liminal (threshold) spaces between worlds, spaces I call nepantla, a Nahuatl word meaning tierra entre medio. They are passageways, conduits, and connectors that connote transitioning, crossing borders, and changing perspectives. Bridges are thresholds to other realities, archetypal, primal symbols of shifting consciousness.1.5 Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (2015).1.4 This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4th Edition (2015).1.3 Interview in Backtalk: women writers speak out by Donna Marie Perry (1993).1.2 Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).1.1 'Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers' (1981).Berkeley, and has focused some of her recent activities on improving the work and classroom climate using Interactive Theater. Carla works as the Director of the Graduate Diversity Program at U.C. What Night Brings also won the Paterson Fiction Prize, the Latino Literary Foundation Latino Book Award, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Her novel, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003), won the Miguel Marmol prize focusing on human rights. She is the editor of Living Chicana Theory (Third Woman Press 2003), and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, winner of a Lambda Book Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award. degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. degree in Human Development from UC Davis, and her M.S. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 26 years. Carla Trujillo was born in New Mexico and grew up in Northern California.

Chicana Lesbians by Carla Trujillo