The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 4-7 p.m., MST
Place: Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona School of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road, Tucson, AZ
The University of Arizona School of Art celebrates A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back with an exhibition of artworks drawn from and created in response to the 2022 anthology. The exhibition runs from January 13 to February 20, 2026. A reception and a Q&A panel with the artists and curators will be held Thursday, February 12, 2026. The book will be available for purchase during the reception. In the nearby Lionel Rombach Gallery, there will be a selection of solo and group shows including undergraduate, graduate and cross-campus collaborators.
In 1981, Chicana feminist intellectuals Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa published what would become a touchstone work for generations of feminist women of color—the seminal This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. To celebrate and honor this important work, editors offered new generations A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back.
About the book:
In A Love Letter, creators illuminate, question, and respond to current politics, progressive struggles, transformations, acts of resistance, and solidarity, while also offering readers a space for renewal and healing. The central theme of the original Bridge is honored, exposing the lived realities of women of color at the intersections of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, advancing those early conversations on what it means to be Third World feminist conscious.
A Love Letter recognizes the challenges faced by women of color in a twenty-first-century world of climate and economic crises, increasing gun violence, and ever-changing social media constructs for women of color. It also retains the clarion call Bridge set in motion, as Moraga wrote: “A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives—our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longing—all fuse to create a politic born of necessity.”
