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Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)

New Books in Philosophy

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Nostrasotras - The Concept of Language

The term nosotrekis echoes ansalduas call through nos otras to look at our boundaries, divisions and differences. It just moves the term more explicitly back into this kind of zone of gender variants which i also think ansadua worked on in various ways throughout her life. I wanted to end the book on this ability for further play, for the discomfort of language and the misfit character of really what many of us feel and live. More often than not, i find that a lot of us are trying words out, trying to explain our relationships to our own bodies and the people who care about us in these bodies.

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