Bold, fun, and real, this essay talks about the importance of trans memory and intersectionality in the struggle.
Crossing the Border in Heels is Alexandra R. DeRuiz’s personal testimony in which she recounts her escape from Mexico through the border into the United States, where she had to build a life from scratch.
There she had to assimilate multiple identities, learning that racism, transphobia, exploitation, stereotypes, and violence are everyday acts and a reality for undocumented trans people living between both countries.
“Rarely can we read such an exceptional work as this: from the proud height of her heels, Alexandra walks, dances, and runs through Mexico City, Tijuana, Los Angeles, San Francisco—spaces crossed by trans sisterhood. A necessary and mandatory read.” J. A. Ramos Arteaga, Department of Spanish Philology, University of La Laguna.
Essential! The book in your hands, besides being bold, fun, and real, talks about the importance of trans memory, intersectionality, and the importance of emotional networks to survive, day by day, in a necropatriarchal world that hates gender disobedience.” Sayak Valencia, Department of Cultural Studies, Colegio de La Frontera Tijuana Mexico.
“A personal odyssey that is also a reflection of an era in Mexico and the world, starring a trans girl who was sensed to be exceptional and whose unique destiny was, in turn, border-crossing, bilingual, multicultural: over time and as a result of her own perseverance, the brave teenager from Romita will become an irreplaceable archetype of the transLatina experience of the 20th century.” Michael K. Schuessler, Department of Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa, Mexico City
