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In class on Thursday following our discussion on Gloria Anzadua’s Borderlands: La Frontera the New Metiza,  El Profe encouraged us to look at borders we cross as individuals. The border lands that I have experienced have helped shaped the woman that I am today.  I have lived between borderlands similar to Anzaldua, Moraga, and characters that live within the Chicana Lesbian Literature that we have been ananlyzing in class.   I have lived between the intersections of borders since the day I was created.  My father is of Mexican Descent and my mother carries blood from as far as Italy.  Not only do I cross racial borders, I cross class borders being that I work as a Professional Certified Nanny.  

This position allows me to cross class borders that I otherwise would have no business being in, literally.  Working as a Nanny brought me to California, crossing state borders.  I challenge the borders that society has lead to believe that I should  fufill such as marrying and having children.  Considering this class raises sexuality, I cross borders as I am dating a black man.  As an undergrad, I represent the first in my family to cross into higher education.  It is not until I stop to think about borders, that I realize we live in a world that constantly sets up borders.  It has been through my experience, that most often these borders are oppressing and are set up to give power to white, hetero males. Similar to Anzaldua,  I experience my journey towards a Mestiza Conciousness through various life stages, and it is through these hard times that give me the courage, the voice, and the skills to move through the journey.