Her involvement in both the Okinawan community as well as women's rights issues has earned her a place among the literary intelligentsia. This paper will attempt to delineate how Doris discursively interrogates her sense of being in her two collections Chambala era un camino and Diario de la mujer: esponja. In each collection respectively, Doris delves into both her ethnic origins and gender orientation. The cathartic act of writing provided her the outlet through which she could come to terms with her/Self and rise above the Peruvian stereotypes. She is currently very active and her poetry is worth the recognition as a corpus that examines both ethnic and gender issues. Special Sessions