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How a "3rd-world Marxist lesbian feminist mystic" became a celebrated Chicana queer philosopher

How a "3rd-world Marxist lesbian feminist mystic" became a celebrated Chicana queer philosopher
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When groundbreaking lesbian political writer Gloria Anzaldúa grew up as a seventh-generation Tejana and Chicana in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley during the early 1940s, her grandparents had lost much of the land they had owned through "carelessness … white peoples' greed, and my grandmother not kno

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