The title Third Woman refers to that pre-ordained reality that we have been born to and continues to live and experience and be a witness to, despite efforts toward change ..."[3] The press closed down in 2004 due to a lack of funds and energy.
It has also published works by notable women of color such as Gloria Anzaldúa's Living Chicana Theory (1998), Cherrie Moraga's The Sexuality of Latinas (1993), Carla Trujillo's Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1994) and Ana Castillo's The Sexuality of Latinas (co-editor, with Norma Alarcón and Cherríe Moraga) (1993).
The tools expand access to the work of activist scholars and artists dedicated to liberation from the historical injustices of colonialism and imperialism.
[8] In 1979, Norma Alarcon, then a graduate student at the Spanish and Portuguese Department in Indiana University, attended the Midwest Latina Writer's Workshop.
[10] Soon after other feminists of color joined Ramirez and helped her set up social media pages, sell books at conferences and, a year after the reopening, they organized fundraisers throughout the United States.
Morago commented on the rise of extreme patriotism, Muslim hatred, and the refusal of the United States to acknowledge the mistakes that led to the attacks.
[11] Moraga also writes about the emergence of intersectionality and the increase of women of color as prominent participants in socio-political movements in the same foreword.
Moraga ends her introduction by claiming that despite the social and political progress made since This Bridge Called my Back was first published, racism still exists.