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Cherríe Moraga

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Cherríe Moraga is a writer and cultural activist whose work serves to disrupt the dominant narratives of gender, race, sexuality, feminism, indigeneity, and literature in the United States. A co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Moraga co-edited the highly influential volume This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color in 1981. After twenty years as an Artist-in-Residence in Theater at Stanford University, Moraga was appointed a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018, where, with her artistic partner Celia Herrera Rodríguez, she instituted Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought and Art Practice. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award and a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature.

Cherríe Moraga Books

Queer Ideas book cover

Queer Ideas

CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies
Loving in the War Years book cover

Loving in the War Years

Cherríe Moraga
Waiting in the Wings book cover

Waiting in the Wings

Cherríe Moraga
Xicancuicatl book cover

Xicancuicatl

Alfred Arteaga
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Native Country of the Heart

Cherríe Moraga
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