In this YouTube video, Cherrie Moraga discusses our first topic of the class, self-identity and what it means to be Chicano/a. She considers Chicano to be of Mexican “herencia” but born in the United States, and that she considers herself a Chicana writer. Continuing on the Chicano movement, she explains how it was first used as a political term used for self-identification for Mexican Americans in the 1960s. The purpose of the Chicano Movement, she says, was to claim the indigenous origins of Mexican in the Americas. She states how the movement helped framed feminism and the “queer identity.” Moraga continues on to explain her background and how she was raised in a Mexican American culture, her mother being Chicana, and her grandmother not speaking a word of English. She concludes the interview with her decision to become a writer and what her purpose was going to be. Moraga explains how she had a choice in writing: she could “copy the great white masters” in literature that she learned in school or find her own origin of voice. It is evident that Cherrie Moraga chose to find her own voice, a voice that represents the queer community and Chicano/as, and a voice that she says, “took her home” to her indigenous origins. This interview was quite interesting because Moraga discusses the exact topics that we had in the beginning of the course. The characteristics that we had described Chicano of being, she had said as well. She expands how the Chicano Movement influenced her ideologies and shaped her writing.