Rooted in Resilience: Communality Practices across Borders

Abstract

As a Mexican of Indigenous descent who resides in what is currently known as the United States, I know from my multiple communities and relations of care that expand across Mexico and the U.S. Witnessing and experiencing state-sponsored violence, but also methods of life-making by displaced communities across colonial borders, ignites my work. Inspired by Chicana feminist scholars, I draw on my communities' embodied experiences of injustice in and through place as theories of the flesh (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1983). While my work is also inspired by Indigenous, feminist, Black, and Latinx scholarship from across the hemisphere, here I will center my transborder communities, the roots of where I know from.