still persists and, while straight actors like Timothée Chalamet are invited to play out queer love stories on screen, the same often isn’t true for queer actors. And, of course, there’s the fear that queer celebrities may be too political, though that’s changing as there are more young, queer celebrities whose — in the words of Chester themself —  “tolerance of giving a fuck is minimal.” who talked about in an interview, about how he saw me on this [Detective Pikachu the terrain she describes in the book is very familiar to me. I wanted to put myself in Anzaldúa’s position — the protagonist forging a new way, the multilingual speaker switching languages without missing a beat, the outsider critiquing an oppressive system. But Anzaldúa’s history lesson at the very beginning of the first chapter made it clear where my family’s place was in our shared history of Texas. That’s exactly her point. Growing up in San Antonio, I went on field trips to the Alamo with my class at school and learned about the deaths of those “heroes.” Because of my fond memories of those field trips, I resisted the first time I read Anzaldúa’s statement that the Battle of the Alamo “became, for the whites, the symbol for the cowardly and villainous character of the Mexicans…a symbol that legitimized the white imperialist takeover.”It wasn’t the “white imperialist takeover,”I thought,it was the fight for independence.Texas Independence Day came at theBattle of San Jacinto