Aunt Lute Books – serie

Forced by Circumstance gathers in one volume foundational essays by, and interviews with one of the most highly esteemed intellectuals in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Feminist Studies. Reading Alarcón’s essays—from her early work on Mexican feminist writer Rosario Castellanos to her recent reflections on the carceral state and the political debacle that our contemporary situation presents—not only offers readers a sense of the intellectual trajectory of one of our most important Chicana feminist thinkers but also brings to a new generation of scholars and readers classic essays in Chicana/o Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, and Literary Studies.

"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.