sees as the loss of butch and lesbian culture to those who choose to transition, stating that she “[does] not want to keep losing [her] macha daughters to manhood through any cultural mandates that are not of our own making.” In response to this, Galarte argued that “Moraga’s text forces transgender folks to bear the burden of proving loyalty to a nation as well as being the figure that is the exemplar of race, sex, and gender abjection and liberation". She was also criticized for her refusal to address transgender women in the essay. https://openjournals.neu.edu/nuwriting/home/article/download/58/44/ Theater From 1994 to 2002, Moraga published a couple of volumes of plays through West End Press of Albuquerque, NM. Moraga has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the United States and is currently an artist in residence at Stanford University. She has written and produced numerous theater productions. She is currently involved in a theatre communications group and was the recipient of the NEA Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award. In 2009 she received a Gerbode-Hewlett foundation grant for play writing. Watsonville: Some Place Not Here Moraga's 1996 play, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here was commissioned by the Brava Theatre Center with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and had its world premiere at the Brava Theater May 25, 1996. It won the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was winner of the Fund for New American Plays Award from the Kennedy center for the Performing Arts. Select bibliography Books Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (1983). Boston: South End Press. . Cuentos: Stories By Latinas (co-editor, 1983). New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. . This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1986, co-editor) Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos (co-editor, 1988). San Francisco: ism press. . The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry (1993). Boston: South End Press. Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994). Albuquerque: West End Press. . Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997) Ithaca: Firebrand Books. . A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010 (2011) Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir (2019). New York: Farrar, Straus, and Girox. . Theater Giving up the Ghost (1986) Shadow of a Man (1990) Coatlicue's Call/ El llamado de Coatlicue (1990) Heroes and Saints (1992) Shadow of a