Resumen de Mujeres y madness: deconstructing Chicana teoria on locura, queerness, and love
In “Mujeres y Madness: Deconstructing Chicana Teoria on Locura, Queerness, and Love,” I explore the intersections of Chicanidad, queerness, and mental health as I navigate “locura” as a "typology in Borderlands." Drawing from queer Chicana feminist theorists, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba, I explicate “locura teoría” within Chicana scholarship. Embracing my “locura”, my obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the journey through madness and sanity, this essay traces my Coactlicue State. Utilizing Anzaldúa’s literature and archives as a backdrop to my mental health, I analyze “locura”, sanity, and love within Anzaldúa’s writing and my journal entries during the 2020-2021 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through my mental destruction and reconstruction, I accept OCD as the “locura” and neurodivergent Shadow-Beast inside my mind.
