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Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel GutieÌ?rrez'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 areas of transphobia among lesbians and feminists, or recalling how one of their own romances unraveled, GutieÌ?rrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.
Section I: Llorando por tu amor. On making butch family: an intertextual dialogue -- A butch in the desert -- Stuck in the adobe -- Section II: Difficult terrains. Do migrants dream of blue barrels? -- Behind the barrier: resisting the border wall prototypes as land art -- Art in the time of art-washing -- Section III: La mano obra. Vessel among vessels: Laura Aguilar's body in landscape -- Memories of the skin: Shizu Saldamando's portraits -- Do I really love San Anto? -- Baby themme anthems: the werq of Sebastian HernaÌ?ndez.