Dr. Iliana Rocha

I chose Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua because it is a groundbreaking text that redefines the boundaries of identity, language, and belonging. Anzaldua's hybrid form - melding poetry, theory, autobiography, and myth - embodies the very borderlands she describes, insisting that knowledge and selfhood are created in dynamic, liminal spaces. This book continues to shape the fields of feminist theory, queer studies, Chicanx literature, and beyond, offering readers a radical vision of how we might live and write from multiplicity, resistance, and transformation, and, importantly, it destabilizes lines of demarcation (borders) that arbitrarily separate one person from another.