Brown Neon misc holding rituals

holding rituals

encountered on late-night strolls with his camera

There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones

This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one: the burn of it down my throat

spurred by the 1969 Stonewall riots

Brown Neon misc holding ritualsA 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 Gutierrez's debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutierrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space