Cristy Road

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Cristy C. Road
BornCristina Carrera
1982
Miami, Florida, United States
Occupation
  • Artist
  • author
  • musician
Education Fashion Institute of Technology
Genre comics, punk, memoir, zine, illustration
Notable worksIndestructible, Bad Habits, Next World Tarot
Website
croadcore.org

Cristina Carrera, otherwise known as Cristy C. Road (born May 26, 1982) is a Cuban-American illustrator, graphic novelist, and punk rock musician whose posters, music, and autobiographical works explore themes of feminism, queer culture, and social justice. She primarily works as an illustrator and graphic novelist, but also published a long-running zine about punk music and her life as a queer Latina. She performed on the Sister Spit roadshow in 2007, 2009, and 2013 and was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the queercore/pop-punk band, The Homewreckers. She currently sings vocals and plays guitar in Choked Up. She has published three books and one collection of postcards, as well as numerous concert posters, protest flyers, book covers, and logos. Road has worked as a professor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. [1]

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Early work and influences

Road's queer and Cuban-American identity are central to both her art and her political refusal to assimilate into mainstream or straight culture, and as an emerging artist she was inspired by the "queer punk scene in San Francisco/Oakland, CA." [2] From 1997 through 2004, she published the zine Greenzine, which started as a fanzine about the band Green Day and eventually focused more on Road's identity, politics, and ideas. [3] Her early artistic influences included John Kricfalusi of Ren and Stimpy, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Kathe Kollowitz. [4]

Music

From 2008 to 2017, Road played guitar and sung in queercore pop punk Brooklyn band The Homewreckers. [5] Road currently sings vocals and plays guitar in pop-punk band Choked Up. [6] In 2021, Choked Up announced they signed to Don Giovanni Records. [7]

Next World Tarot

In 2017, Road successfully raised nearly $30,000 on Kickstarter [8] to fund the Next World Tarot. The hand-illustrated tarot deck features colorful portraits of queer and POC bodies in a post-apocalyptic existence. While producing the deck, Road also earned her master's degree in fine art illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology, where she focused her thesis on the history of tarot. [9]

Critical acclaim

Bitch magazine listed Road as a "Bitchlist" pick in 2005. [10] Curve said of Indestructible: "So powerful is Road's candid portrayal of growing pains, it provides the perfect comfort for angsty, self-loathing youth and sends older readers back down memory lane through their own adventures and mishaps of young adulthood." [11] Road's memoir Bad Habits was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award. [12] In 2012, Flavorwire named Road one of 50 "up and coming New York culture makers to watch in 2013," describing her as "a fixture in feminist, LGBT, and punk zinester circles." [13]

Published work

Bibliography adapted from Road's website. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cristy Road Carrera | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University". documentarystudies.duke.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. ↑ "Queer Latina Punk Artist Cristy C. Road: The Interview | Autostraddle". autostraddle.com. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  3. ↑ "Green Zine #14 | Microcosm Publishing". microcosmpublishing.com. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  4. ↑ "Interviews: Rad Women Who Make Rad Art #5: Cristy Road | Punknews.org". punknews.org. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  5. ↑ "Polemic | Cristy Road Carrera". www.abcnorio.org. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  6. ↑ "Demo 2017, by Choked Up". Choked Up. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  7. ↑ "Don Giovanni Records". Don Giovanni Records. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  8. ↑ "THE NEXT WORLD TAROT". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  9. ↑ Pu00e9rez, Miriam Zoila (2018-01-11). "Next World Tarot is the Tarot Deck of Your Apocalyptic Dreams". ColorLines.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Sm{art}: Diggin' Deep With Cristy C. Road". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  11. ↑ "Indestructible | Microcosm Publishing". microcosmpublishing.com. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  12. ↑ ""Passing for Black" and Cristy Road's "Bad Habits" are up for Lambda's Lit Awards in 2008 - AfterEllen.com". afterellen.com. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  13. ↑ "50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers to Watch in 2013 – Flavorwire". flavorwire.com. Archived from the original on 2014-05-06. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  14. ↑ "Roads resume". croadcore.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  15. ↑ "Justseeds: Josh MacPhee: Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution". justseeds.org. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
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