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Join Author + illustrator Cristy Road Carrera of Sink Or Burn for a reading + visual slideshow to celebrate the recent release of SINK OR BURN (Row House Press).
Sunday, February 8, 2026 @ 3PM, at the Legendary Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, in Room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. NYC
In Sink Or Burn, the year is 2121, and fascism has overthrown a once-thriving utopia.
Amid the ashes of a fallen nation, Cheap Glitter—a queer, punk rock band—becomes the voice of resistance. As they tour across a fractured America, raising funds for the fight against a brutal regime, they navigate wildfires, sunken landscapes, and the terrifying laws of a collapsing society.
At the heart of their journey is CT, a lovelorn survivor whose romantic entanglement with a fellow bandmate—a survivor of a different war—complicates their quest for both personal healing and social revolution. As the band balances the weight of trauma with the urgency of their fight, they discover that love, however chaotic, may be their greatest weapon.
A punk rock anthem and a manifesto for the broken-hearted— Sink Or Burn tells the story of a tortured artist’s evolution into a divine healer. Cristy Road Carrera, a punk rock icon and queer Latina artist, weaves together individual survival with the broader struggle for liberation, through autobiographical fiction and hand drawn illustrations.
Copies of SINK OR BURN Will be available for purchase at The Bureau alongside hundreds of tools for reclaiming our power from state violence and indoctrination.
To reserve a copy of Sink or Burn (100 Block by Row House, February 3, 2026, paperback, $18.99) and/or Next World Tarot: Deck and Guide (2nd edition), (Silver Sprocket, November 10, 2021, $50) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Sink or Burn and/or Next World Tarot for February 8 event” in the subject line, and let us know which of these items you’d like to purchase in the body of the email.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
You can also purchase Sink or Burn and Next World Tarot (click on titles below) on our online shop at bookshop.com/shop/bgsqd:
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Unsung cult hero Cristy Road Carrera is a first-generation Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. She is the creator of three illustrated novels and the revolutionary Next World Tarot, and has been illustrating for cultural and social movements for over 25 years. While exploring race, gender, sexuality, punk rock, and survival, Road creates a visual and audible soundtrack for a broken world.
Learn more about the author at www.croadcore.org