Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo is an educator, organizer, cultural critic and semi-retired punk scenester from Michigan, currently based in the West Side of Chicago. Her interests include the Midwest, Afro-Latine culture and history, Black and Indigenous resistance and futures, abolition, sweets, DIY music scenes and her cat.
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