Brown Neon

Brown Neon

by Raquel Gutiérrez
Brown Neon

Brown Neon

by Raquel Gutiérrez

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566896375
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 06/07/2022
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 1,124,403
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gutiérrez credits 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. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism and a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is/They are faculty for Oregon State University–Cascades’ Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona, home.

Table of Contents

Section I Llorando Por Tu Amor

On Making Butch Family: An Intertextual Dialogue 3

A Butch in the Desert 29

Stuck in the Adobe 49

Section II Difficult Terrains

Do Migrants Dream of Blue Barrels? 71

Behind the Barrier: Resisting the Border Wall Prototypes as Land Art 89

Art in the Time of Art-Washing 121

Section III La Mano Obra

Vessel Among Vessels: Laura Aguilar's Body in Landscape 135

Memories of the Skin: Shizu Saldamando's Portraits 147

Do I Love San Anto? 157

Baby Themme Anthems: The Werq of Sebastian Hernandez 179

Acknowledgments 209

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