[7] In 2017, she co-founded, with Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Practice, located on the campus of UC Santa Barbara.

[8][13] In 1977, she moved to San Francisco, where she supported herself as a waitress, became politically active as a burgeoning feminist, and discovered the feminism of women of color.

"[16] Moraga co-edited the anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Gloria Anzaldúa, and the first edition was published in 1981 by Persephone Press.

[18] Along with Ana Castillo and Norma Alarcón, Moraga adapted this anthology into the Spanish-language Este puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos.

In the essay she also discussed transgender people in queer communities and critiqued the increasing inclusion of trans issues in LGBT politics.

"[25]: 184  Some community members such as Morgan Collado and Francisco Galarte responded by emphasizing how this invalidated and dismissed the lived experience of young people who decide to transition.

"[25]: 186  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": 131–32 [incomplete short citation].

[citation needed] https://openjournals.neu.edu/nuwriting/home/article/download/58/44/ From 1994 to 2002, Moraga published a couple of volumes of plays through West End Press of Albuquerque, NM.