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GUEST: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University and the author and editor of many books including The Gloria Anzaldua Reader. She has just edited Light in the Dark/Luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, by Gloria Anzaldua.

Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. It influenced women all over the country, in activist circles and in academia.

Anzaldua went on to write numerous well known books including the semi-autobiographical Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. She became a pioneer in the field of Chicana feminist and queer theory. Now, more than 10 years after Gloria Anzaldua died, her last work has just been published with the help of her editor and long-time collaborator AnaLouise Keating. Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Sprituality, Reality was meant to be Anzaldua’s dissertation, which she worked on near the end of her life. AnaLouise Keating is a Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Women’s Studies Department at Texas Woman’s University. She now joins me to discuss Anzaldua’s last book.