"According to Anzaldua (1987: 3), 'borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them.' She also defined borderlands as 'vague and undetermined spaces created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is a constant state of transition.' Why do we set B/borders between the ways we love each other? Why do we keep forcing ourselves to love in limiting/limited ways? What formas de queremos could exist beyond the socially constructed B/borderlands that limit our experiences of 'radical interconnectedness/interconnectivity' (Keating 2007: 44)? What are the borders we need (or not) to love?
"The notions 'affective B/borderlands' and 'B/borderland affects' can be theoretical tools that might serve as a starting point to envision and embody forms of relationality yet to be created, explored, and named. 'Affective B/borderlands' are those contradictory, complicated, and blurred emotional locations that we have been taught to fear - to avoid like minefields. They are the residue of the unnatural boundaries established among the ways in which we love each other. We enter those borderlands when we start to reject hierarchical modes of relationality."
- Krizia Puig, "The TransAlien Manifesto: Future Love(s), Sex Tech, and My Efforts to Re-member Your Embrace" (2019)