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A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.
Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutiérrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object, highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multigenerational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutiérrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.
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About Raquel Gutierrez
Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she/they credit the queer and feminist diy, post-punk zine culture of the 1990s, plus Los Angeles County and Getty-paid arts internships, for introducing her/them to the various vibrant art and music scenes and communities throughout Southern California. A 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism and a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, she/they are faculty for Oregon State University–Cascades’ Low Residency MFA program in creative writing.