of what I knew additionally sparked my interest in raising political and social gender and sexuality." She has published three books and one collection of post cards, as well as numerous concert posters, protest flyers, book covers, and logos. Music From 2008 to 2017, Road played guitar and sung in queercore pop punk Brooklyn band The Homewreckers. The band has since broken up and performed for the last time on March 18, 2017, at a benefit concert for The Audre Lorde Project. Road currently sings vocals and plays guitar in pop-punk band Choked Up. In 2021 Choked Up announced they signed to Don Giovanni Records. Critical acclaim Bitch magazine listed Road as a "Bitchlist" pick in 2005, writing that she created socially conscious art with "love, color, and punk rock grit." Bluestockings Books articulated Road's style and impact in their 2006 review of Indestructable, "Cristy's rad illustrations and incisive writing give voice to this true story about gender identity, cultural roots, mortality, and punk rock." Curve said of Indestructable: "So powerful is Road's candid portrayal of growing pains, it provides the perfect comfort for angsty, self-loathing youth and sends older readers back down memory lane through their own adventures and mishaps of young adulthood." Road's memoir "Bad Habits" was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award. One of her posters was featured in the Justseeds collection Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution. In 2012, website Flavorwire named Road one of 50 "up and coming New York culture makers to watch in 2013," describing her as "a fixture in feminist, LGBT, and punk zinester circles." Spit and Passion At its core, Spit and Passion is a coming out graphic memoir about Cuban identity and about the transformative moment when music saves an adolescent from their own angst. At twelve years old, Cristy Road is struggling to balance long standing Catholic Cuban traditions and family with her newfound queer identity. She begins an obsession with the pop punk band Green Day. A stunning graphic biography, Spit and Passion depicts the clash between her inner world of fantasy and the "numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by." Next World Tarot In 2017, Road successfully raised nearly $30,000 to fund her long-term passion project, Next World Tarot. Entirely hand-illustrated, this tarot deck features colorful portraits of queer and POC bodies in a post-apocalyptic existence. While producing the deck, Road also earned