"I dreaded those public moments that highlighted the fact that I was a foreigner. Sometimes I sat at my desk, plotting my revenge. I would master the English language. I would infiltrate the gringo culture without letting on that I was a traitor. I would battle in their tongue and make them stumble. I would cut out their souls and leave them on the shore to be pecked on by vultures."
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On attending school after she immigrated with her family from Colombia to the United States in “tatiana de la tierra” (Making Queer History; 2019 May 14)
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Tatiana de la tierra
tatiana de la tierra (May 14, 1961– July 31, 2012) was a Colombia-born Latina lesbian writer and creator of the first international Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre.
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