Quién Soy/About Me
Dr. Marlén Ríos-Hernández (she/hers/ella) is Xicana Punk Musicologist and Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is also a former 2019-2022 UC President’s UCLA Postdoctoral Fellow from UCLA.
Queer Feminista. Abolitionist. Educator.
Hecho en Southeast Los Angeles by Mexican immigrants.
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
-Assata Shakur
Research Interests
Chicanx Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Horror and Punk Cinema, Critical Ethnographies, Sound Studies, Feminist LGBTQIA+ Anarchist Thought, Hemispheric Punk Movements and Policing “Post”-COINTELPRO, Feminist Musicology, Punk Pedagogy and Archival Research Methods.
In the Media
- Daily Titan– Professor finds space for underrepresented communities in punk rock
- LibroMobile/Off the Page Series–A New Chicanx Cohort: Profes in Borderlands, Punk Communities, & Healing Justice
- Orange County Register–PunkCon, an all day celebration at CSUF, will champion social justice
- Daily Titan– PunkCon passes the mic to marginalized voices
PunkCon
Founded in 2019 by QTPOC and BIPOC grad and undergrad students and comrades from across ivory towers, PunkCon is a bi-annual conference and back yard show dedicated to centering and celebrating the diversity of punk artists, musicians, activists, and scholars. Our namesake is from our first gathering in 2019 held at UC Riverside.
We are grassroots and community led. We are sustained by the generous contributions from our community and by academic institutions.
Publications
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“Don’t Call Us Posers: Beyond White, Straight, Suburban Punk Histories. Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog at CUNY. 2022.
Book Endorsement: The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs by Amalia L. Ortiz (2019).
“Book Review: Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot.” Vivien Goldman. Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. 216 pp. Journal of Popular Music Studies, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 176–178, Electronic ISSN: 1533-1598.
“‘Don’t Be Afraid to Pogo!’: Chicana Hollywood Punks Negotiate ‘h/home’ After Hardcore Takes L.A.” S/O: Sounding Out!, 2017.
“If La Llorona Was a Punk Rocker: Detonguing The Off-Key Caos and Screams of Alice Bag.” S/O: Sounding Out!, 2017. Currently being revised for SoundingOut! Anniversay.
Contact Me
Research, Media, and PunkCon Inquires, and/or Request CV.
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