Brown Neon Journal and why the poison of

and why the poison of racism lingers

who revived the Wampanoag language

shape-shifters

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives

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Brown Neon Journal and why the poison ofby Raquel Gutirrez 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 Gutirrezs debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutirrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate