Alienated from her mother culture, ‘alien' in the dominant culture, the woman of color does not feel safe within the inner life of her Self. Petrified, she can’t respond, her face caught between los intersticios, the spaces between the different worlds she inhabits.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

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