This was produced for the exhibition back/s together curated by Imayna Caceres and Verena Melgarecho in the VBKÖ in January of 2018.
"And someone in me takes matters into our own hands, and eventually, takes dominion over serpents—over my own body, my sexual activity, my soul, my mind, my weaknesses and strengths. Mine. Ours. Not the heterosexual white man’s or the colored man’s or the state’s or the culture’s or the religion’s or the parents’—just ours, mine. And suddenly I feel everything rushing to a center, a nucleus. All the lost pieces of myself come flying from the deserts and the mountains and valleys, magnetized toward the center. Completa."
Gloria E. Anzaldua, Borderlands, at the end of the chapter "La herencia de Coatlicue / The Coatlicue State
This was produced for the exhibition back/s together curated by Imayna Caceres and Verena Melgarecho in the VBKÖ in January of 2018.
"And someone in me takes matters into our own hands, and eventually, takes dominion over serpents—over my own body, my sexual activity, my soul, my mind, my weaknesses and strengths. Mine. Ours. Not the heterosexual white man’s or the colored man’s or the state’s or the culture’s or the religion’s or the parents’—just ours, mine. And suddenly I feel everything rushing to a center, a nucleus. All the lost pieces of myself come flying from the deserts and the mountains and valleys, magnetized toward the center. Completa."
Gloria E. Anzaldua, Borderlands, at the end of the chapter "La herencia de Coatlicue / The Coatlicue State