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Bio (More or Less)
Soy Latina!
Although I have an anglo first name I am fully Mexican-American. My abuelita named me after a english speaking soap opera that she use to watch.
Mis padres son de Mexico y soy muy orgullosa de ser su hija! I speak three languages (Spanish, English, y Spanglish) and I live in Nepantla (Náhuatl term which means "in the middle"). I live in the borderlands of not fully belonging to my country of birth (USA) or my parents' homeland yet beginning to feel fully comfortable in this "in between space." I am also coming to terms with what it means to call myself Chicana. It has taken me years to be comfortable with such a term and so my journey continues. I am beginning to NAME myself!
I am a middle child but never experienced the "middle child" syndrome because I grew up the oldest of the last three. At one point I was an only child raised by my aunt, uncle, and grandmother. I learned my language from my abuelita watching novelas. My abuela is a hard woman to love but she has endured much.
I am studying theology at a seminary and hope to pursue post-graduate studies. I have recently become interested in Feminist Liberation Theologies. Thus some of my post will be my reflections on the many ideas that I am discovering, processing, and working through. #HSP2014
Estoy trabajando con college students who allow me to walk with them through life. That is my greatest joy--to journey through life with students in their pain, joy, doubt, questions, and whatever else they allow me to participate in.
Tambien estoy en una relación nueva. I've been dating someone for about 6 months and its been good, scary, fun, and amazing. I mention this new relationship because I hope to be authentic about my life on my blog and because he may come up in a post. Not only might I blog about this new adventure but about the path that I had to travel to get to this place (divorced--story for a different day).
My blog is entitle Un-boxed because I refuse to allow myself to be categorized as one thing or the other--I am all of these things and more. We like to limit people and place them in various categories that make it comfortable for others but I refuse. As my professor once said in Old Testament theology, "Moses didn't want to know Yahweh's name so he could say who sent him but instead he wanted to control God." Well I refused to be controlled...yo soy quien yo soy...creada en la imagen de la divine.
Amen.
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