Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)

Creativity is a liberation impulse, an activity that transforms materials and energy. It stems from the impulse to use the capacities of your mind, body, soul, and other inner resources collaboratively, to create.

visioning and re-membering.”

formalizing and ordering attempts, its own strategies, the machinations of thought itself, of theory formulated on an experiential level of discourse.

posits the imagination as an intellectual-spiritual faculty.

Anzaldúa redefines the term, incorporating imaginal, spiritual-activist, and ontological dimensions.

seek a healing image, one that reconnects me to others. I seek the positive shadow that I’ve also inherited.

decolonize western epistemologies by moving partially outside Enlightenment-based frameworks.

There’s something epistemological about storytelling.

Mi cuerpo becomes part of, merges with, “disappears” into my surroundings.