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>> I have a thing with mics.

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A very problematic relationship.

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Can you all see me?

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I want to welcome all of you here, and
I would like to thank Alison Deming

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and the Poetry Center for their
invitation and also for putting me

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up at this beautiful Poetry Center
Cottage that I have all to myself.

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It's such a luxury to have a whole
apartment to myself instead of,

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you know, some little crummy hotel room.

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[ Laughter ]

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No, I want it crossways.

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Yeah, yep, like that, because I'm so short.

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I'm 4' 11".

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I used to be 4' 11-1/2", but
I shrunk in the last 10 years.

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My vertebrae are settling.

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I also want to thank SIROW
and the Women's Studies along

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with Karen Anderson for facilitating
my visit here.

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Who else? I want to acknowledge
the four SIROW scholars.

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I don't know, whatever you are
called, but there's four of them,

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but I only see three of them here.

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There she is.

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Okay, Miriam Bornstein.

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Stand.

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[ Applause ]

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Christine Marin.

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[ Applause ]

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Ana Louise Keating.

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I don't know if I'm pronouncing
it right, and Shane [? Phelan ?].

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Did I pronounce yours right?

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[ Applause ]

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I would like to dedicate this
reading to Yolanda Leyva.

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Yolanda, are you here?

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>> Hi.

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>> Yolanda is an old housemate of mine,
back in my first PhD program in Austin,

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and I've tried to squeeze a little time out to
spend with her, but thus far have not managed

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to do that, but we'll keep trying.

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Okay? I haven't forgotten you.

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I would like, before I get into the reading
proper, there's a couple of publications

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that I want to pass the word on to you.

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Sinister Wisdom is a magazine for and
by lesbians that I've been affiliated

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with since 1964 -- no, that's
not true, since 1984.

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It seems like since 1964, but
we have an issue that's an issue

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by women of color that's coming up.

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You're too late to submit for the open issue.

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The deadline closed earlier this month,
but there's an issue for women of color.

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The deadline is February 15, and you send your
poems, essays, artwork, narratives, whatever,

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to them, and you can see me
after, if you want the address.

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I have a flyer here, if somebody wants it.

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Lesbians of color only, sorry.

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I, myself, will be co-editing another
anthology, which is an anthology that is going

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to explore the mestiza consciousness, and I will
be co-editing it with Shelley Fishkin Fisher,

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a Jewish feminist from Austin,
and if any of you,

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in all colors, all classes, all nationalities.

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We have some internationalists
also contributing.

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If you'd like more information about
that, I have a few flyers, maybe, for you.

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Francisco Alarcon is a gay man from
the same place that I'm from right now,

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which is Santa Cruz, and a year
before I started Borderlands,

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I had started a book called De Las Otras,
De Los Otros, which is a book of lesbian,

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or I should say Chicana dykes and Chicano
gay men, and did not get a tremendous amount

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of manuscripts, so I had to put it on
a back burner, and in the meantime,

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two more books have come out of me, out of this
body, and we resuscitated this anthology, and,

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hopefully, because he is helping me,
maybe we can get more men to contribute.

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So, if anybody is a Chicana dyke or a
Chicano gay man, sorry, but the rest of you.

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So, anyway, that's a couple
of years down the road.

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The Mestiza Consciousness is about three
years down the road, and about four years

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down the road is another book that
I, myself, am editing all by myself.

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It's called Chicana Theory.

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That's the working title right now, and I hope
that it'll be a place where Chicanas, scholars,

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and creative writers can come together and
do some good writing, some good scholarship,

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some good research, come
up with some good ideas.

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So, if anybody's interested
in that, Chicanas only, sorry.

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[ Laughter ]

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I also wanted to acknowledge Chuck Tatum.

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Is he here?

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Chuck? Maybe I shouldn't acknowledge him, then.

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For changing the title of his annual from New
Chicano Writing to New Chicana/Chicano Writing

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at my urging and as well as allowing
for Spanish and Spanglish Tex-Mex,

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where he at first only wanted English.

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So, the first two things that I'm going to
read are what I call short shorts that are

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in the New Chicana/Chicano writers
annual that's going to be out in April.

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I'm going to read Puddles first, and then
I'm going to read Ghost Trap secondly.

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I'm going to deviate a little
bit from my usual format.

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What I do is, I do three little sets.

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I read like two or three things, and
then I open it up for discussion.

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I read two or three things and open it up
for discussion, and then end with another two

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or three things, but I think because
there's so many of you here that want

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to hear me rather than yourselves.

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I would rather hear you, but I will just read.

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Okay? And, huh?

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Es major. And at the end, you know, however
the schedule goes, there may be some time

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for response, but I don't
like to do it this way, okay?

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[ Laughter ]

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Sorry.

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[ Laughter ]