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born 1947 Puerto Rico
Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera (born in 1947) is a Puerto Rican human rights advocate, New-Humanist educator, poet, and scholar. Umpierre-Herrera works on the topics of activism and social equality, encompassing the immigrant experience, and bilingualism in the United States, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues.
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I have also been called and labeled "crazy" for daring to break stereotypes and taboos-for questioning white women on their racism.
Manifesto: Whose Taboos? Theirs, Yours, or Ours? (1996)
I feel that self promotion of one's misfortunes for gain is highly deplorable and a treason to the self.
I have always thought that my poetry is a reflection of my life in all its many capacities.
This book is an answer to Cherrie Moraga's valiant Loving In The War Years.
The Margarita Poems (1987)
I don't write anything in life, be they poems or articles, out of wanting to impress people with "volume" but out of thought, perception and feeling.
The Margarita Poems (1987)
In summary, this is our collection. And to all who ruminate these pages: luz y mar.
The Margarita Poems (1987)
When one "steals" a dress code from another gender, one is crossing a line in this country and walking into the realm of irrational fears living in people's minds.
Manifesto: Whose Taboos? Theirs, Yours, or Ours? (1996)
The chapbook was published in Puerto Rico as a gift to Nemir, my muse at that time (2008/2009); a woman I truly love.
What I needed to verbalize is the fact that I am, among many other things, a Lesbian. Second, I wanted to communicate in some viable form with some One who came to represent all women to me.
The Margarita Poems (1987)
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