Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was a Poet, Bruja, Chicana Feminist Theorist, Alchemist, Philosopher, and Spiritual Activist. In this episode, we discuss her life growing up on the Texas-Mexico border, her chronic illness and its relationship to her body and her writing, her deep study of alchemy, astrology, depth psychology, and the occult, her revolutionary work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, and more, along with many notable points of her natal chart.Sources: Texas State Historical Association (tshaonline.org) · National Women's History Museum (womenshistory.org) · Wikipedia, "Gloria Anzaldúa" · NowComment, "Three Biographies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa" · Ms. Magazine · Emory University Postcolonial Studies Blog · EBSCO Research Starters · Literary Ladies Guide · Annenberg Learner · Amy Poehler's Smart Girls/shift7 · I Am Subject (iamsubject.com) · Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, "Depth Psychology in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera" · Santa Clara University, "Assessing Gloria Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark" · Gloria Anzaldúa, Interviews/Entrevistas, ed. AnaLouise Keating, Routledge, 2000.