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Speakers

"Where Do We go From Here?:

(Re) imagining Punk's Futurity"

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UCR PunkCon 2021

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Tequila Mockingbird

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Tequila Mockingbird who has been a longtime fixture on the LA music scene. Her first band was "Trouble for Nora" with Mitch Mitchell of "The Jimi Hendrix Experience." She has had a TV show on cable called Tequila TV for over 25 years. She is also an actress, and writer . Her company, Do Monkey Productions, booked the historical punk rock TV show, "New Wave Theater." She has been published in LA Beat and Lost Anarchy Magazine and has a regular column in Rock City News. She created The Punk Museum to bring old friends together for art, music, and culture. It was located at KGB studios and special events in Pop up form. Tequila is on the board of directors at Trans lunar research, a rocket company, located in the Mojave desert, that is sending a rocket of punk memorabilia to the moon in 2023 and cohost on thepunkast with UCLA professor Jessica Schwartz. She is currently working on a book called Punk you about the early LA scene.

Josie Wreck

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Josie Wreck is no stranger to the power of possibility and the art of confrontation. As a trans Xicanx and experimental artist of the punk/goth variety, Wreck’s dynamic work traverses boundaries between punk, goth, folk, electronic, and rock 'n roll. Currently, Wreck is producing her own online radio show Aural Displeasure, broadcasting sounds from the radical intersectional queer and femme underground (+beyond). As an extension of this project, she's creating an active digital archive of her own back catalog working against histories and lineages of gatekeeping and erasure. 

 

Wreck has been a community organizer for the past 15 years, booking countless shows, working to improve trans representation in punk by helping organize Transgress Fest, and as a central organizer of the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls Orange County where she taught girls and trans youth the power of music as a vehicle for empowerment and change. 

Before fronting trans hardcore improv super group QTPI XPRESS and quirky punk rock ‘n roll trio Popsical, Wreck cut her teeth as an experimental folk solo artist in Bush era Orange County in a genre she dubbed Uneasy Listening. Her work is poetic, auto-biographical, and political - processing trauma, exploring themes of identity, sexuality, chaos, injustice, and encouraging punks to punch nazis in the face.

 

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Kristy Martinez

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Kristy Martinez is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Musicology. She received her Master’s in American Indian Studies at UCLA, as well as her Bachelor’s in History with a minor in Comparative Religions. She is Chicanx and a Yaqui (Yoeme) direct descendant from Sonora, Mexico, and has grown up in the San Gabriel Valley. She is heavily involved in the punk scene as a scholar and performer. An alto vocalist, she is currently in a punk band and also enjoys singing R&B.

 

Her M.A. work included documenting the contributions of Indigenous rock and punk rock music movements, working with punk, ska, metal, and hardcore bands in the Southwest, as well as looking to Mexico and other Indigenous communities. Martinez’s current primary research is on the Northern Arizona punk scene starting in Flagstaff in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and those that have since followed. She is using D.I.Y. interactive, archival methods by creating a social media network to document those involved in the scene, past and present, with flyers, photos, videos, and interviews. Her work aims to be accountable to tribal and Indigenous communities, as well as to encourage and actively seek their input. An active scholar, she has presented her work at various punk conferences including UC Riverside, and UCLA, presented guest lectures for American Indian Studies and Chicanx Studies, and also recently spoke at Amplifying Music in Los Angeles, a project sponsored in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Ricky Rodriguez 

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Richard (aka Ricky) T. Rodríguez is associate professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes in Latina/o literary and cultural studies, film and visual culture, and gender and sexuality studies with additional interests in transnational cultural studies, popular music studies, and comparative ethnic studies. After receiving his BA in English from UC Berkeley and his PhD in the History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz, he taught for several years at Cal State LA and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before joining the UC Riverside faculty in 2016. The author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2009), which won the 2011 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, he is at work on two projects: Undocumented Desires: Fantasies of Latino Male Sexuality and Latino/U.K.: Transatlantic Intimacies and Post-Punk Cultures. 

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2019 Honoree, Speakers, Bands and Vendors

Honoree and Speakers

Alice Bag (Honoree) https://alicebag.com/ 
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FUPU (Fuck U Pay US)
https://fuckupayus.bandcamp.com/releases 
https://www.instagram.com/fuckupayus/?hl=en 
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Raquel Gutierrez 
http://raquelgutierrez.net/bio 
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Michelle Cruz Gonzales
https://punk-writer-michelle-cruz-gonzales.com/ 
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Bands

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Vendors

Amina Cruz Photography 
https://www.aminacruz.com/ 
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GataSalvaje Merch
https://www.gatasalvajemerch.com/ 
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Chicas Rockeras
https://www.crsela.org/
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