Blog #5 - Story Foster

Unsurprisingly, this is one of my favorite things we've read. It's been one of the only readings I've been able to get through without bullying myself into it (which isn't to say the other stuff has been bad, just not my cup of tea). I love Anzaldua's code switching - it makes her work seem much more real than some of the other theorists we've read. I don't speak Spanish (I speak Portuguese, which is similar but still very different, and I know some Spanish from exposure but I've never formally studied it), so it was hard to get through those sections, but it would have felt wrong to translate it. Sitting with the discomfort and difficulty of reading these few Spanish passages felt like part of the point - that's a discomfort many people have no choice but to deal with every day, and it's a privilege to exist without shame in my native language.