This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation Book

	Giving Thanks
	Preface: (Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces	1
	Charting Pathways, Marking Thresholds ... A Warning, An Introduction	6
	Foreword: AfterBridge: Technologies of Crossing	21
I	"Looking for my own bridge to get over" ... exploring the impact
1	Open the Door	27
2	Chameleon	28
3	Del puente al arco iris: transformando de guerrera a mujer de la paz - From Bridge to Rainbow: Transforming from Warrior to Woman of Peace	42
4	Nacido en un Puente/Born on a Bridge	50
5	Engaging Contradictions, Creating Home ... Three Letters	53
6	Bridges/Backs/Books: A Love Letter to the Editors	59
7	Bridging Different Views: Australian and Asia-Pacific Engagements with This Bridge Called My Back	62
8	Thinking Again: This Bridge Called My Back and the Challenge to Whiteness	69
9	The Spirit of This Bridge	77
10	Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves: Yearning, Memory, and Desire	81
11	Seventh Fire	104
II	"Still struggling with the boxes people try to put me in" ... resisting the labels
12	Interracial	105
13	Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves	106
14	Gallina Ciega: Turning the Game on Itself	110
15	Que Onda Mother Goose: The Real Nursery Rhyme from El Barrio	116
16	The Hipness of Mediation: A Hyphenated German Existence	117
17	Living Fearlessly With and Within Differences: My Search for Identity Beyond Categories and Contradictions	126
18	A Letter to a Mother, from Her Son	136
19	Young Man Popkin: A Queer Dystopia	137
20	Transchildren, Changelings, and Fairies: Living the Dream and Surviving the Nightmare in Contemporary America	145
21	The Real Americana	155
22	Shades of a Bridge's Breath	158
23	Nomadic Existence: Exile, Gender, and Palestine (an E-mail Conversation between Sisters)	165
24	(Re)Writing Home: A Daughter's Letter to Her Mother	176
25	In the End (Al Fin) We are all Chicanas (Somos Todos Chicanas): pivotal positions for change	181
III	"Locking arms in the master's house" ... omissions, revisions, new issues
26	Burning House	191
27	"What's Wrong with a Little Fantasy?" Storytelling from the (Still) Ivory Tower	192
28	Footnoting Heresy: E-mail Dialogues	202
29	Memory and the New-Born: The Maternal Imagination in Diaspora	208
30	The "White" Sheep of the Family: But Bleaching is like Starvation	223
31	Lesbianism, 2000	232
32	"Now That You're White Man": Changing Sex in a Postmodern World - Being, Becoming, and Borders	239
33	Poets, Lovers, and the Master's Tools: A Conversation with Audre Lorde	254
34	"All I Can Cook is Crack on a Spoon": A Sign for a New Generation of Feminists	258
35	Don't Touch: Recuerdos (Self-Destruction)	267
36	Premature	267
37	The Reckoning	277
IV	"A place at the table" ... surviving the battles, shaping our worlds
38	Puente del Fuego	285
39	Vanish is a Toilet Bowl Cleaner	286
40	Yo'Done Bridge is Fallin' Down	287
41	Council Meeting	293
42	For My Sister: Smashing the Walls of Pretense and Shame	295
43	Resisting the Shore	301
44	Standing on This Bridge	304
45	Stolen Beauty	313
46	Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)	314
47	So Far from the Bridge	325
48	The Ricky Ricardo Syndrome: Looking for Leaders, Finding Celebrities	330
49	Survival	339
50	Imagining Differently: The Politics of Listening in a Feminist Classroom	341
V	"Shouldering more identity than we can bear" ... seeking allies in academe
51	Nurturance	357
52	Aliens and Others in Search of the Tribe in Academe	358
53	The Fire in My Heart	369
54	Notes from a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower	372
55	Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman's Position in the Women's Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor	381
56	This World is My Place	390
57	Missing Ellen and Finding the Inner Life: Reflections of a Latina Lesbian Feminist on the Politics of the Academic Closet	391
58	The Cry-Smile Mask: A Korean-American Woman's System of Resistance	397
59	Andrea's Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education	403
60	Recollecting This Bridge in an Anti-Affirmative Action Era: Literary Anthologies, Academic Memoir, and Institutional Autobiography	415
61	Healing Suenos for Academia	433
VI	"Yo soy to otro yo - I am your other I" ... forging common ground
62	My tears are wings	439
63	The Colors Beneath Our Skin	440
64	Connection: The Bridge Finds its Voice	449
65	The Body Politic - Meditations on Identity	450
66	Speaking of Privilege	458
67	The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist/Lesbian Encuentros: Crossing the Bridge of Our Diverse Identities	463
68	Sitting in the Waiting Room of Adult and Family Services at SE 122nd in Portland, Oregon, with My Sister and My Mother Two Hours Before I Return to School (April 1995)	470
69	Tenuous Alliance	473
70	Chamizal	483
71	Linkages: A Personal-Political Journey with Feminist-of-Color Politics	486
VII	"I am the pivot for transformation" ... enacting the vision
72	Girl and Snake	495
73	Thawing Hearts, Opening a Path in the Woods, Founding a New Lineage	496
74	Still Crazy After All These Tears	506
75	"And Revolution is Possible": Re-Membering the Vision of This Bridge	510
76	Witch Museum	517
77	Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World	519
78	In the Presence of Spirit(s): A Meditation on the Politics of Solidarity and Transformation	530
79	Continents	539
80	Now let us shift ... the path of conocimiento ... inner work, public acts	540
	Works Cited	579
	Contributors' Biographies	593
	Editors' Biographies	602
	Index	603