Sublime

disrupts categorical and ethnocentric forms of nationalism.

it’s this shift from writing about to writing within that makes her work so innovatively decolonizing.

how we can repair el daño (the damage) by using the imagination and its visions.

significance for me, its maker, and for you, its reader / interpreter / co-creator, furthers (not obstructs) the making of art.

Anzaldúa does not reclaim an authentic indigenous practice but instead develops a twenty-first-century approach—a decolonizing ontology—that respectfully borrows from indigenous wisdom and many other non-Cartesian teachings.

But unlike object-oriented philosophers, who generally posit an extreme hyper-individualized realism in which all objects (including human beings) are, ultimately, independent and separated (“withdrawn”) from all others, Anzaldúa insists on the radical interrelatedness, interdependence, and sacredness of all existence.

liminality—

To develop an epistemology of the imagination, a psychology of the image, I construct my own symbolic system.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.