Brown Neon

Name: Brown Neon
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By Raquel Gutirrez and Raquel Gutierrez

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Summary

Brown Neon is a compelling meditation on the landscapes of the American Southwest, interwoven with intergenerational queer dynamics and the challenges faced by surveilled brown artists. Raquel Gutierrez’s debut essay collection blends butch memoir, ekphrastic travel diary, and queer family history to explore how place shapes personal and collective stories. Through reflections on adobe architecture, feminist and trans experiences, and complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship, the essays illuminate the deep connections between terrain, memory, and identity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in queer memoirs, Latinx cultural experiences, and contemporary art and architecture enthusiasts exploring identity through place. It will also resonate with those engaged in feminist and LGBTQ literary communities seeking nuanced, intergenerational perspectives.

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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 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 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 multi-generational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutierrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.

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Brown Neon has been widely acclaimed, winning the 2023 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and securing a finalist spot for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography. It was named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 and featured as a must-read by Oprah Daily and Vogue. The collection has been celebrated across LGBTQ, Latinx, and arts communities for its unique voice and insight, receiving praise from Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, and others.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566896375

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: 10 black and white photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ Romance Non-Fiction Raquel Gutierrez Raquel Gutirrez

About the Author

Raquel Gutierrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gutierrez 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. Gutierrez 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 UniversityCascades' Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Gutierrez calls Tucson, Arizona, home.