Sink or Burn Book Talk: Cristy Road Carrera in conversation with Ariel Gore

Unsung cult hero and eternal rabble rouser, Cristy Road Carrera is a first generation Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. She’s been publishing illustrated novels, playing in punk bands, and creating art for cultural and social movements for over 25 years. Her last release, the Next World Tarot, is an ode to building another world based on social justice; while her latest illustrated novel, Sink or Burn, is a handbook for survival when that world falls apart. While exploring culture, sexuality, punk rock, and survival— Cristy Road creates a visual and audible soundtrack for a broken world.

Ariel Gore is a Lambda Award Winning editor and author of 13 books of fiction and nonfiction as well as a zillion zines and coloring books. Her latest: Rehearsals for Dying, a memoir about queer love versus the cancer industrial complex from the Feminist Press and Wonder Widow—part graphic-novel, part coloring book, all weirdness. She teaches online at literarykitchen.net. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Story, New England…