Week 5 - targeted post

Ambiguity appears to be an issue that is widely dealt with along the border. In Anzaldua's excerpt, she explains how she is of many different groups and ethnicities, but never really knows which one to comfortably identify with at any given time. She speaks different languages in different places, and struggles to name one place to call "home." This raises the question, to what extent are we defined by the language we speak? And when does the greater population begin to understand that people can identify with multiple ethnic groups? This identity crisis of sorts was very intriguing for me, and reminded me of the inSITE article. Much like Anzaldua, inSITE was an artistic exhibition that did not really understand what it was or what to call itself. Identity confusion runs rampant along the border; from people, to places, to events. Both Anzaldua and inSITE experience the same ambiguity of self, only to later realize that no person or event can bear one descriptor alone, and there is even beauty in that confusion.

I think Anzaldua's words and inSITE's mission go hand in hand; they both work to embrace the obscurity of the border and all of the cultural mishaps and uncertainties that go along with it. Rather than trying to subscribe to one label, it is much more fulfilling and worthwhile to exist as an amalgam of ambiguity.