Border theory refers to a body of scholarship that has diverse interdisciplinary, political, social, and academic origins but has become institutionalized in the academy and crystallized into a mode of analysis that has quieted its messy beginnings.

What is borderland feminism?

This “borderlands” feminism, many argue, calls up a syncretic form of consciousness made up of transversions and crossings; its recognition makes possible another kind of critical apparatus and political operation in which mestiza feminism comes to function as a working chiasmus (a mobile crossing) between races, …

What does it mean to live in the borderland?

Living in the Borderlands means you fight hard to resist the gold elixir beckoning from the bottle, the pull of the gun barrel, the rope crushing the hollow of your throat; … To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.