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Raquel Gutiérrez
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I'm just finding my bearings here now! Author of Brown Neon (Coffee House Press, 2022), writer/critic/educator, South/west Coast Chill & desert enthusiast.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson!

Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social,
Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My profile on beloved poet Richard Siken is up at Poetry Foundation. Hope you'll check it out!
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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New interview up Poets dot org
poets.org/text/enjambm...
March 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
border-pocket-guide-2.pdf
www.eff.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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My ACT UP LA Oral History Project co-producers in conversation with journalist Maddy Castigan. One of my photos is included in this piece.
Reagan-Era AIDS Activists Call for New ACT UP-Style Movement for Trans Liberation
In an exclusive interview, two prominent members of ACT UP, which has been credited with saving millions of lives, hope to inspire younger LGBTQ activists to embark on a bold trans liberation movement
www.madycast.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Poets. Always.
February 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I organized 3 L.A. OMNIBUS events for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Save the dates: March 13, March 27, and April 24. First up: TREN AL SUR, feat. CAROLINA MIRANDA! Read more here ⤵️
cap.ucla.edu/event/la-omn...
LA Omnibus March 13 | CAP UCLA
Former Los Angeles Times art critic, the beloved writer and critic, Carolina Miranda, joins writer Raquel Gutierrez in a conversation on art, culture and movement in Los Angeles. Both writers will als...
cap.ucla.edu
February 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This program for the TUMBADOS SYMPOSIUM looks AMAZING. LA 🤝 NYC, baby. (presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union). Míralo!
storefront.nyc/program/tumb...
Storefront for Art and Architecture
storefront.nyc
February 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I spoke with NPR/Las Cruces (KRWG-fm) reporter @scottbrocato.bsky.social ahead of my reading tomorrow at NMSU. A tinely chat, check it out:

www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...
Author Raquel Gutiérrez will read from her book "Brown Neon" Friday night at NMSU's Nelson-Boswell Reading Series
Raquel Gutiérrez will be reading from her 2022 book of essays, “Brown Neon”, Friday night at 7:30 in the Creative Media Theatre inside Milton Hall on the NMSU campus, part of the Nelson-Boswell Readin...
www.krwg.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you haven't done so, get thee a protonmail account now. Going to pull myself from Google's saltwater taffy grip by the end of this week/month if it's the last thing I do...
January 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I could really use a Costco-branded photo-sharing platform where I can stay in touch w/friends and let folks know when I'm reading poetry in public, hbu?
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I'm the co-curator of Scientia Sexualis, an exhibition at ICA LA (up til March 2). This exhibition features a number of works by artists who confront scientific racism and the exploitation/abuse of black people in the history of medicine—King Cobra, Wangechi Mutu, and Cauleen Smith. bit.ly/40PH9xr
Scientia Sexualis - Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
ICA LA
bit.ly
January 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I got hacked and locked out of my Twitter account, an energetic cesspool I once enjoyed wading in but alas...thankful to find my brood, my ilk, my fellow travelers here 🩵🌫🩵
January 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM