Brown Neon Journal and why the poison of

and why the poison of racism lingers

shape-shifters

This is a love story and a story about betrayal—not between lovers but between a mother and a daughter

who revived the Wampanoag language

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