Gloria Anzaldua asks the question \u201chow do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it?\u201d in her essay, \u201cHow to Tame a Wild Tongue.\u201d She tells the story of her at the dentist but connects it to her life experience. For most of her life, Gloria, because she identified as a Chicana, was often silenced, disregarded, and stripped of her identity. By silencing someone\u2019s tongue, you are taking away their ability to be human, stand up for themselves, and speak for what they believe in. They are essentially losing the biggest part of what defines them and what makes them unique. As we learned earlier this year, wildness is defined as something untamed, uncultivated, and something that stands out from the rest. To break down the question \u201chow do you tame a wild tongue,\u201d I personally think something so \u201cwild\u201d does not actually have the ability to be tamed. How can you \u201ctame\u201d something that is meant to be loud, to be heard, and to be understood? In Gloria\u2019s example, people want to \u201ctame\u201d and silence her because of where she comes from and looks like. They want to take her established identity and change\/silence it because they believe it does not belong, but she should be wild. She shouldn\u2019t be silenced let alone ashamed of who she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~Audrey Wines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gloria Anzaldua asks the question \u201chow do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it?\u201d in her essay, \u201cHow to Tame a Wild Tongue.\u201d She tells the story of her at … Continue reading