Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, Reading Ourselves ... Complex Intimacies, Intricate Connections
To Delia, Who Failed on Principles
I Want To Be Shocked Shitless
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers
The coming of el mundo surdo
El paisano is a bird of good omen
Dream of the Double-Faced Woman
Foreword to the Second Edition (of This Bridge Called My Back)
Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Body: An Interview with Linda Smuckler
Part 2. "Middle" Writings
Creativity and Switching Modes of Consciousness
En Rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras
Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman
Haciendo caras, una entrada
Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar, or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas
Ghost Trap/Trampa de espanto
To(o) Queer the Writer-Loca, escritora y chicana
Border Arte: Nepantla, el Lugar de la Frontera
On the Process of Writing Borderlands / La Frontera
La vulva es una herida abierta / The vulva is an open wound
The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement
Part 3. Gallery of Images
Foreword to Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit
Memoir-My Calling; or, Notes for "How Prieta Came to Write"
Transforming American Studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson Prize Acceptance Speech
(Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces
A Short Q & A between LP and Her Author (GEA)
Bearing Witness: Their Eyes Anticipate the Healing
Speaking across the Divide
Disability & Identity: An E-mail Exchange & a Few Additional Thoughts
Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative-la sombra y el sueno
Appendix 2. Timeline: Some Highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life