She clearly understands home-as-territoriality to be imbued with a violence when she writes that cisheteronormativity instills with lesbians of color a “[f]ear of going home” due to the likely possibility of social and familial rejection as well as the potential for even physical violence. The fact that home-as-territoriality will be the subject rejecting rather than she is what justifies the statement “[n]ot me sold out my people but they me.” Cisheteronormativity, then, is an incredibly powerful agent in forcing Anzaldúa to change her narrative of home, to be able to be “at home” even as she leaves home-as-territoriality. In fact, for many queer Mestizas who are forced to leave or are afraid of returning to home-as-territoriality the narrative of home-as-corporality becomes incredibly important to create home anywhere. Though this is not the only system of violence which influences
She clearly understands home-as-territoriality to be imbued with a violence when she writes that cisheteronormativity instills with lesbians of color a “[f]ear of going home” due to the likely possibility of social and familial rejection as well as the potential for even physical violence. The fact that home-as-territoriality will be the subject rejecting rather than she is what justifies the statement “[n]ot me sold out my people but they me.” Cisheteronormativity, then, is an incredibly powerful agent in forcing Anzaldúa to change her narrative of home, to be able to be “at home” even as she leaves home-as-territoriality. In fact, for many queer Mestizas who are forced to leave or are afraid of returning to home-as-territoriality the narrative of home-as-corporality becomes incredibly important to create home anywhere. Though this is not the only system of violence which influences