Bi, Brown, and Brilliant: Reclaiming Stories in the Borderlands

Bianca Zamora

Stevenson 101
8:30 AM

Zamora, a proud queer Latina feminista educator and alumni of the SSU WGS major and Queer Studies minor, will enact her performance autoethnography that draws from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands: La Frontera to explore the relationship between colonialism, racism, sexism, and biphobia. Participants are asked to reimagine how the bisexual borderlands act as not only spaces of cultural contradictions, but serve as sites of brilliance, resistance, and survival. As a coordinator for the CSU Monterey Bay Otter Cross-Cultural Center, Bianca utilizes intersectional and arts-based approaches to explore issues of power, identities, and coalition building. Outside of work, she engages in community advocacy through poetry. Most recently Bianca spoke at the 2019 Monterey Peninsula Pride and will be speaking at the 2020 Womxn's March. She holds a Student Affairs Master’s degree from Miami University.