Part I: Healing the Wounds: (Re)imagining Borderlands Theory

Chapter 1: “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective,”

Nivea Castañeda

Chapter 2: “Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing,”

Manuel Alejandro Pérez

“Make America Great Again,”

Robert Gutierrez-Perez

Chapter 3: “Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness,”

Carlos Tarin

“Dolores,”

Masha Sukovic

Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and Healing

Chapter 4: “Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach,”

Sarah Amira de la Garza

Chapter 5: “A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela’s Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness,”

Luis Manuel Andrade

Chapter 6: “I take something from both worlds”: An Anzaldúan Analysis of Mexican-American Women’s Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity,”

Leandra Hinojosa Hernández

Part III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of Conocimiento

Chapter 7: “Communicating Nepantla: An Anzaldúan Theory of Identity,”

Sarah De Los Santos Upton

Chapter 8: “Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento,”

Edmundo M. Aguilar

Chapter 9: “Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges,”

Diana I. Bowen

Part IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and Hybridity

Chapter 10: “Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity,”

Stephanie L. Gomez

“La Dueña de la Casa,”

Masha Sukovic

Chapter 11: “A Tolerance for Ambiguity or the American Dream: Using Anzaldúa to Disrupt and Reclaim Latina Lives from Multicultural Feminism,”

Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Marie Calafell

Part V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building

“Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems,”

Shantel Martinez

Chapter 12: “Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoría,”

Tara L. Conley

Chapter 13: “Rasquache Cyborgs and Borderlands Aesthetics in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer,”

Alexandrina Agloro

Chapter 14: “Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, & Topographies of Anger,”

Rachel Alicia Griffin

Part VI: Anzaldúan Approaches to Critical (Communication) Pedagogy

“I Get It from My Mother,”

Robert Gutierrez-Perez

Chapter 15: “Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment,”

Xamuel Bañales

Chapter 16: “Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal,”

Luis Gabriel Sanchez Rose

Chapter 17: “A Crack to Speak Out From: Performing Coalitional Politics Through Dialogue, Listening, and Reflexivity,”

Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Bedilia Ramirez

Chapter 18: “Becoming a Bridge in/through Critical Communication Scholarship:

Meditations on the Affective Afterlife of Cultural Normativities,”

Gust A. Yep