JE #9

1.     I feel like I have learned a great deal more about the Treaty of Guadalupe in this course than I ever had at once before.  By breaking down each artcile of the Treaty, we were given insight to the injustices infused in micromanaged wording.  The subject that was completely new to me was that of the Juarez femicides.  I know so miuch more about what has happened, the NAFTA's affect on it, and the laws that protect the perpetrator while encouraging una cultura de silencio. 

2.     I feel like, since coming to college, I am in a constant state of acknowelding new borders (the first step), occasionally identifying snake bites.  I have identified my religious border, my political border, the borders I hold between English and Spanish, between being a modern woman and being an old-fashioned lady. 

3.     I feel like the Coatlicue State is so amorphous and grand that I struggle to see where it fits into life in it's milder forms - if it has milder forms.  I question if the experience I think I've had with it is actually an example of it. 

5.     6/10 - In some ways, I am still aknowledging where my inconsistensies lie criss-crossed along my being, finally feeling the snake bites that have occurred throughout my life. In one sense, I have dipped my toes in the silky, engrossing water of the Coatlicue State.  The films and readings have served to open my eyes to all of the ways that these borders can come to be and all of the different life experiences and modes of thinking that I hadn't yet been exposed to and am now very conscious of.