We are the queer groups, the people that don’t belong anywhere, not in the dominant world nor completely within our own respective cultures. [...] We do not have the same ideology, nor do we derive similar solutions. Some of us are leftists, some of us practitioners of magic. Some of us are both. But these different affinities are not opposed to each other. In El Mundo Zurdo I with my own affinities and my people with theirs can live together and transform the planet. —Gloria Anzaldúa, 1981
As a publication of selected works from El Mundo Zurdo 2024, the sesquiannual meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, this collection features innovative and emergent applications, extensions, and fusions of Anzaldúan theory, method, philosophy and cosmology. The theme of the 2024 conference, Les Atravesades en Comunidad: Coalition Building as Light in the Dark, is embodied in these contributions from both senior and emergent scholars, as well as cultural producers, community activists, and students.
