This essay examines the significant role Chicana feminist writers play in contesting mainstream perspectives on U.S. Spanish. Through the development of Chicana and U.S. Latina feminist discourse centered on the reclamation and affirmation of one’s inherited tongue, women have generated robust methodologies to understand the benefits of embracing the hybridity, intersectionality, and complexity of communication. From Gloria Anzaldua’s “mestiza consciousness” and Cherrie Moraga’s “theory in the flesh” and “coming from a long line of vendidas” to Ana Castillo’s “Xicanisma” and Emma Perez “sitio y lengua,” a new understanding of identity formation about the languages defining one’s cultural reality enabled women the ability to challenge the hegemonic identity politics for women by fostering narratives of “selfhood” that rethink the lens of Spanish in Chicana feminism.