Cherríe Moraga

"…The road that I have walked in my life as a mixed blood Chicana and as a lesbian has more and more put me… I am always the blood quantum that I am. But culturally and the life that I’ve lived and the…"

"Class, I think its class above all else. Because the way class operates in this country is related to race. What I have noticed is that when white women and white lesbians relate to women of color wha…"

"Both my essays and plays attempt to explore a political question or contradiction through the mind or the heart. By that I mean, both genres require analysis and a heart-felt honesty. But the essay is…"

"…It’s more that the conventionality of the model makes it a domesticized view of desire and also that really what we want is the same things as heterosexuals: the nuclear family, marriage; all of thes…"

"After publishing Loving in the War Years which was very autobiographical, my own story had finally been told on the page. This allowed space within me for character my unconscious…"

"I don’t think femme-butch categories necessarily reproduce male-female gender relations and stereotypes about lesbians. I’m not sure Medea really thinks this either, but she does get angry at Luna whe…"