With Her Machete in Her HandWith the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherre Moraga and Gloria Anzalda ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole communitylesbian and straight, male as well as femalewho write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To