{"id":187,"date":"2020-09-07T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbridgecalledcyberspace.net\/ThisBridge\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-09-13T23:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T23:41:20","slug":"1-gloria-anzaldua-is-my-antidote-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbridgecalledcyberspace.net\/ThisBridge\/covid-19\/1-gloria-anzaldua-is-my-antidote-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"1) Gloria Anzald\u00faa Is My Antidote for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog is about my process. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A Chicana colleague shocked me out of self-pity when she said she thought I was the first tenured Chicana feminist scholar to be displaced by COVID-19. In the spirit of sharing, I am blogging so no one else feels alone. I am sure that I am not the only one. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A shifting sense of identity has been an unexpected part of becoming jobless. Yes, I am a <\/span>COVID-19 displaced worker. In fact, I have been unemployed since the end of May. Sad. Mad. Betrayed. At times, I am simply confused. Mainly, I am confused. I clean, sleep, EAT, and think. Mainly, I sleep. The story seems so sad, but it is happening to me. No job after teaching Women\u2019s Studies and Chicanx Studies for twenty years. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Believe me, I have wanted it to all stop, but I have to go through this. Right now, I am stuck. I don\u2019t want to shift to the new reality; I fight it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Working on myself is demanding work. Teaching Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s <\/span>Borderlands\/La Frontera <\/span><\/i>has prepared me to shed my skin with grace. Coatlaxopeuh is helping me learn to take this time for myself. On days when I feel underwater, I think I must choose between getting another teaching position and getting a job in the private sector.  Lucily, Anzald\u00faa\u2019s discussion of the Coatlicue State has prepared me for \u201cdowntime\u201d while I consider ways to juggle my teaching\/academic skills and my hobby business (web design and development) skills. This blog is one way I am learning to juggle and figure out what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By writing and learning to use WordPress, I am developing a new sense of online community. <\/span>Already this blog has revived my sense of hope. Hope was there I know, hidden by the deaths of six people close to me and by the pain of isolation due to COVID-19. <\/span><\/p>\n

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As I process my loss and understand the potential changes, I am finding myself again. I am going inside myself, either sleeping or lying around. I am not doing anything, but I am processing everything. I am going underground in an archaeology of my Self. Gloria Anzaldua is my antidote for 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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