but she and Calvin Harris are clearly moving on from each other — and quickly. (Hey, sometimes that's the healthiest way to do it.) “The wilderness of Texas has been redeemed by Anglo-American blood and enterprise.” Anzaldúa rewrites that version in her own words: “The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it.” Wharton and other white male leaders of the Texas Revolution became famous; elementary schools and roads are named after them. The Native Americans and Mexicans who were stripped of their land are largely forgotten, erased from our official history. for many trans people, there are a growing number of openly trans lawmakers across America, fromPhillipe Cunninghama city councilperson for Minneapolis, toDanica Roem I tell my daughters that we are the descendants of the people who took the land from the ancestors of the Chicanitas they play with every day on the playground. In fact, these weren’t just distant relatives. My great-uncle was one of the Texas Rangers, a fact I was proud of growing up, until I read inBorderlands/La Frontera