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*Of interest to those invested in the intersection between feminist reproductive labor and sickness; the quotidian and revolution; the daily experience of engaging in anti-colonial work and post-punk antifascist culture.
*Of interest to readers seeking contemporary depictions of queer Latinx life and renewed practices of tradition and brujería
*Author has a great sense of humor.
*Author works at coffeshop/movie rental store in SF Mission District where they make daily chalk-board signs with often pointed or humorous social commentary
*Author self-published a comics zine about bisexuality
*Author is a talented visual artist (print-making, comics, zines, chalk-board signs, movement posters) who has exhibited and performed at institutions such as the Berkeley Art Museum. Book cover will feature one of their prints.
*Author is a regular contributor to SFMoma’s OpenSpace blog
*Author was co-curator of Cantíl reading series (POC reading series in SFBay Area)
*Author works for Project SURVIVE out of City College of San Francisco, a student lead peer education group that presents to CCSF and SFUSD students about healthy relationship and sexual violence
*Author is an Intern for the City of San Francisco’s Office for Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention
*Author was a 2018 Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State University
*Poems were written at the kitchen table while thinking about the radicalization of Latinx teenagers.
*Author works as a peer sexual health educator at CCSF’s Project SURVIVE
*Author is doula living in California
About the author
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles, California by a family of single women, and grew up traveling and living across the western United States and Mexico with their mother, a cultural anthropologist. Tatiana’s first book,
The Easy Body, was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2017; their writing has appeared in
SFMOMA Open Space and
Wolfman New Life Quarterly. They live in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco, around the corner from where they work as a barista at a pop and pop café video rental store hybrid and as a peer sexual health educator at CCSF’s Project SURVIVE.
Summary
A collection of poems that explores the radical love inherent in revolutionary work through cultural objects, adolescent affect, and queerness from within the fall of empire.
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta croons in the voice of a lovesick teenaged folklorist time traveler about revolution, housework, anti-colonialism, folk tales, post-punk, anti-fascism, anorexia, and alcoholism. Named both for the Chicana feminist concepts of revolutionary maneuvers and submerged technologies of struggle and the explosive queer punk movement that emerged in Spain during its transition from Franquist Fascism to democracy, La Movida moves from bed to street to river, defending memory and falling in love along the way.
Foreword
Advance Reader Copies
Outreach to LGBTQ Media
Outreach to Latinx Media
Social Media Campaign
Virtual launch
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"Both raw & elegant, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s La Movida embraces the vulnerability of the individual who finds strength in collective struggle. Whether driven by 'desire, or / the agonizing pleasure / of self-torture,' here, they exist 'in complicated love.' Here, they know no 'better / way to deal with a broken / heart than a riot.' Here, 'virgo could be / [their] gender, or / it could be [their] sexuality.' Among marigolds, razors, crystal balls and natal charts, Luboviski-Acosta recovers the potency of the wail of La Llorona, a 'wail [that] will drown you, too.'”—Wendy Trevino
"At once soft and jarring, LA MOVIDA walks a morbid path through fields of corporeal indulgence, introspection and repulsion—submission and protest. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work voices keen self-observation, and a fiercely unique power to confront and envelope simultaneously, with compassion. One is crushed and sustained by the weight of these careful, assertive pieces."—Liz Harris
"There is an easy voice here both guileless and full of guile, sometimes full of adult world-weariness sometimes as naïve as a child, then looking at its own naïeveté and laughing, and showing us its wounds, a little proudly, a little insouciantly. La Movida is romantic, filled with love and longing and friendship and revolution. It is also Romantic in the old sense of the poetic tradition. Here is a poet who is willing—even desirous—to be torn apart for a glimpse of Beauty."—Julian Talamantez Brolaski
