On being a cultural and sexual border dweller

 If one is an immigrant one might be seen as a cultural border dweller, torn between the demands of conflicting cultures, for example, in the US Anglo and Mexican.

 The resulting problem is the sense of being caught in the confluence of multiple cultures, which  leads to a kind of multiplicity or fragmentation of self.

 For example, one might be represented in a racist manner in dominant white forms of feminism and in a sexist manner in dominant forms of racial resistance. This tension between conflicting cultural perspectives is not aided of  helped by the academic-voices of scholarly objectification, don't you just love, those all knowing academics,