Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (American Music)2025 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk, Tara Lpez dives into the rebellious sonic history of the city, drawing on more than seventy interviews with punks, as well as unarchived flyers, photos, and other punk memorabilia.

memory after memory

The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work

and enraging

this collection delves deep into the heart and its contradictions

Share in the intimacy of two genderqueer lovers’ playful first time together

a work of scathing satire and piercing insight

but I think it was on vacation in Cape Town

the long-missing third volume in the Coley series hits the stands This much-anticipated 128-page softcover collects both the Hard Throbs and Daggar of Blood mini-series under a single cover

Another in the current flood of homosexual novels

and activists across the gender spectrum

and Electric Lit

" --Xochitl Gonzalez