ABSTRACT
The multiple voices speaking their lives and experiences in both This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation have taught me how to understand and respect differences among us and how to interrogate my own privileges as a light-skinned woman. Moreover, they have helped me to find ways in which I can work across differences in hopes of changing oppressive relationships existing within myself and in my world. Collectively, our rhetorics of transformation help to create Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of El Mundo Zurdo, the left-handed world where queer groups live together not in opposition but in interconnectedness and community to transform the world.1 For Anzaldúa, the path to El Mundo Zurdo is a “two-way movement-a going deep into the self and an expanding out into the world, a simultaneous recreation of the self and a reconstruction of society” (“La Prieta” 232).
