Crown Heights, Brooklyn now has its very own bookstore! Celebrate the opening of Hullabaloo Books (711a Franklin Ave on Park Place) with the store's first Queer Reading! Featuring:
Cristy C. Road
Chavisa Woods
Mario Alberto Zambrano
Sassafras Lowrey
Tommy “Teebs” Pico
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American Artist and Writer. Blending her political principles, sexual identity, and social inadequacies- Road lives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her endeavors in illustrating and publi...
Crown Heights, Brooklyn now has its very own bookstore! Celebrate the opening of Hullabaloo Books (711a Franklin Ave on Park Place) with the store's first Queer Reading! Featuring:
Cristy C. Road
Chavisa Woods
Mario Alberto Zambrano
Sassafras Lowrey
Tommy “Teebs” Pico
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American Artist and Writer. Blending her political principles, sexual identity, and social inadequacies- Road lives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her endeavors in illustrating and publishing began when writing a punk rock zine, Greenzine, for ten years. Greenzine eventually included narratives on race, gender, and eliminating oppression in the punk and activist communities. She resumed to contribute illustrations to countless record album covers, book covers, political organizations, magazine articles, and more. Road has published an illustrated novel about high school, mental health, sexuality, and Miami entitled INDESTRUCTIBLE (Microcosm), a postcard book entitled DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW SICK (Microcosm), and BAD HABITS (Soft Skull), an Illustrated love story about healing, drugs, gay nightlife, and her telepathic connections to the destruction of New York City. Roads work has also been featured in the Baby Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing Anthology, Live Through This Anthology, Reproduce and Revolt, and countless other published works. She’s toured nationally and internationally on her own, and with SISTER SPIT, an all-queer spoken-word road-show. Her latest novel, SPIT AND PASSION (Feminist Press), is a graphic novel about coming out, maintaining her Cuban cultural roots, and an obsession with Green Day. She is currently working on a TAROT CARD DECK with Author, Michelle Tea and her band, THE HOMEWRECKERS. She hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.
Chavisa Woods is a Brooklyn based literary author whose work pushes boundaries of narratives around class culture, gender, and sexuality. Her most recent novel, "The Albino Album" was published by Seven Stories Press, 2013. Woods' debut collection of fiction, “Love Does Not Make me Gentle or Kind” (Fly By Night Press, 2008) was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. The second edition of these work was recently released by Autonomedia Press through the Unbearable imprint in late 2012. Woods was the recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Travel/ Study Award for emerging writers in 2009. She has featured as a reader with a number of renowned institutions and festivals including a multi-day performance at The Whitney Museum in New York City, as a member of Butch Morris' Chorus of Poets. Woods’ poetry short stories and essays have been published nationally and internationally in publications including The Evergreen Review, Matador, The New York Quarterly, Sensative Skin, Jadaliyya, and many others.
Mario Alberto Zambrano was a contemporary ballet dancer before dedicating his time to writing fiction. He has lived in Israel, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Japan, and has danced for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballett Frankfurt, and Batsheva Dance Company. He graduated from The New School as a Riggio Honors Fellow and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as an Iowa Arts Fellow, where he also received a John C. Schupes Fellowship for Excellence in Fiction. Lotería is his first novel.
Sassafras Lowrey got hir start writing as a punk zinester in Portland, Oregon. Ze is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored & Lambda Literary Finalist Kicked Out anthology, and Leather Ever After. Hir debut novel Roving Pack (www.RovingPack.com) was honored by the American Library Association and chronicles the underground lives of gender-radical queer youth searching for identity, community, and belonging. Sassafras has contributed to numerous anthologies including Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships, and Say Please: Lesbian BDSM. Sassafras is the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Berzon Emerging Writer Award. Ze lives and writes in Brooklyn with hir partner, two dogs of dramatically different sizes, and two bossy cats. Learn more at www.SassafrasLowrey.com
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the driving force behind birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that publishes art and writing. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and has been published in THEthe Poetry Blog, [PANK] and BOMB. heyteebs.tumblr.com