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| Giving Thanks | |
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| Preface: (Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces | |
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| Charting Pathways, Marking Thresholds ... A Warning, An Introduction | |
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| Foreword: AfterBridge: Technologies of Crossing | |
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| "Looking for my own bridge to get over" ... exploring the impact | |
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| Open the Door | |
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| Chameleon | |
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| Del puente al arco iris: transformando de guerrera a mujer de la paz - From Bridge to Rainbow: Transforming from Warrior to Woman of Peace | |
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| Nacido en un Puente/Born on a Bridge | |
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| Engaging Contradictions, Creating Home ... Three Letters | |
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| Bridges/Backs/Books: A Love Letter to the Editors | |
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| Bridging Different Views: Australian and Asia-Pacific Engagements with This Bridge Called My Back | |
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| Thinking Again: This Bridge Called My Back and the Challenge to Whiteness | |
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| The Spirit of This Bridge | |
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| Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves: Yearning, Memory, and Desire | |
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| Seventh Fire | |
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| "Still struggling with the boxes people try to put me in" ... resisting the labels | |
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| Interracial | |
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| Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves | |
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| Gallina Ciega: Turning the Game on Itself | |
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| Que Onda Mother Goose: The Real Nursery Rhyme from El Barrio | |
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| The Hipness of Mediation: A Hyphenated German Existence | |
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| Living Fearlessly With and Within Differences: My Search for Identity Beyond Categories and Contradictions | |
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| A Letter to a Mother, from Her Son | |
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| Young Man Popkin: A Queer Dystopia | |
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| Transchildren, Changelings, and Fairies: Living the Dream and Surviving the Nightmare in Contemporary America | |
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| The Real Americana | |
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| Shades of a Bridge's Breath | |
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| Nomadic Existence: Exile, Gender, and Palestine (an E-mail Conversation between Sisters) | |
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| (Re)Writing Home: A Daughter's Letter to Her Mother | |
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| In the End (Al Fin) We are all Chicanas (Somos Todos Chicanas): pivotal positions for change | |
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| "Locking arms in the master's house" ... omissions, revisions, new issues | |
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| Burning House | |
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| "What's Wrong with a Little Fantasy?" Storytelling from the (Still) Ivory Tower | |
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| Footnoting Heresy: E-mail Dialogues | |
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| Memory and the New-Born: The Maternal Imagination in Diaspora | |
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| The "White" Sheep of the Family: But Bleaching is like Starvation | |
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| Lesbianism, 2000 | |
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| "Now That You're White Man": Changing Sex in a Postmodern World - Being, Becoming, and Borders | |
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| Poets, Lovers, and the Master's Tools: A Conversation with Audre Lorde | |
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| "All I Can Cook is Crack on a Spoon": A Sign for a New Generation of Feminists | |
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| Don't Touch: Recuerdos (Self-Destruction) | |
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| Premature | |
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| The Reckoning | |
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| "A place at the table" ... surviving the battles, shaping our worlds | |
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| Puente del Fuego | |
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| Vanish is a Toilet Bowl Cleaner | |
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| Yo'Done Bridge is Fallin' Down | |
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| Council Meeting | |
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| For My Sister: Smashing the Walls of Pretense and Shame | |
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| Resisting the Shore | |
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| Standing on This Bridge | |
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| Stolen Beauty | |
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| Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas) | |
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| So Far from the Bridge | |
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| The Ricky Ricardo Syndrome: Looking for Leaders, Finding Celebrities | |
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| Survival | |
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| Imagining Differently: The Politics of Listening in a Feminist Classroom | |
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| "Shouldering more identity than we can bear" ... seeking allies in academe | |
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| Nurturance | |
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| Aliens and Others in Search of the Tribe in Academe | |
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| The Fire in My Heart | |
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| Notes from a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower | |
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| Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman's Position in the Women's Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor | |
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| This World is My Place | |
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| Missing Ellen and Finding the Inner Life: Reflections of a Latina Lesbian Feminist on the Politics of the Academic Closet | |
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| The Cry-Smile Mask: A Korean-American Woman's System of Resistance | |
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| Andrea's Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education | |
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| Recollecting This Bridge in an Anti-Affirmative Action Era: Literary Anthologies, Academic Memoir, and Institutional Autobiography | |
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| Healing Suenos for Academia | |
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| "Yo soy to otro yo - I am your other I" ... forging common ground | |
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| My tears are wings | |
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| The Colors Beneath Our Skin | |
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| Connection: The Bridge Finds its Voice | |
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| The Body Politic - Meditations on Identity | |
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| Speaking of Privilege | |
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| The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist/Lesbian Encuentros: Crossing the Bridge of Our Diverse Identities | |
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| 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) | |
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| Tenuous Alliance | |
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| Chamizal | |
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| Linkages: A Personal-Political Journey with Feminist-of-Color Politics | |
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| "I am the pivot for transformation" ... enacting the vision | |
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| Girl and Snake | |
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| Thawing Hearts, Opening a Path in the Woods, Founding a New Lineage | |
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| Still Crazy After All These Tears | |
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| "And Revolution is Possible": Re-Membering the Vision of This Bridge | |
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| Witch Museum | |
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| Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World | |
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| In the Presence of Spirit(s): A Meditation on the Politics of Solidarity and Transformation | |
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| Continents | |
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| Now let us shift ... the path of conocimiento ... inner work, public acts | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Contributors' Biographies | |
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| Editors' Biographies | |
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| Index | |