“color,” “fiction.” In a world that has grown increasingly knowledgeable about the complexity of gender identity, we can wonder what it means to declare oneself “woman”; we can also debate what it means to identify as a “person of color” in the United States, where the Pew Center reports that in the last decade, “racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7 percent of the nation’s population growth.” Finally, twenty-plus years of postmodern theory have dismantled traditional ideas about authorship and truth, and so we may very well ask ourselves: what does it mean to write fiction? Nearly thirty-three years after the publication of Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s landmark anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, the popularity of Twitter hashtags such as #notyourasiansidekick, #solitaryisforwhite women, or #blackpowerisforblackmen reveals that contemporary discourse continues to focus exclusively on one’s gender or race but rarely on both.
