A meditation on southwestern terrains intergenerational queer dynamics and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.ampamp160Part butch memoir part ekphrastic travel diary part queer family tree Raquel Gutiampamp233eacuterrezs debut essay collection Brown Neon gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutiampamp233rrez terrain is essential to understanding that no story no matter how personal is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multigenerational lesbian social fabric or recalling a failed romance Gutiampamp233rrez traverses complex questions of gender class identity and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.