Dr. Marlen Ríos-Hernández is a 2019-2021 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation “We Were There”: From Alice Bag to Emos The War on Punk and Other Décadas Podridas is a full length hemispheric comparative study of queer Chicana and Latina participants in the Los Angeles/Southern California and Latin American punk scenes from 1977-2001 respectively. Her next project will focus on early policing in SoCal punk "Post"-COINTELPRO. Marlen discovered punk amidst the student walk outs during the early 2000s in Southeast LA namely in the South Gate punk scene. Home to the famous Allen Theater and Cafe Kashmir, the South Gate scene gave her some of her earliest memories interviewing with punk fans, bands, and artists. To this day, she dedicates her ganas, research, and community work to the punk scenes that nurtured her throughout her youth. Born in Huntington Park, California to Mexican immigrants she identifies as a queer Chicana and currently resides with her partner in Long Beach. She is also part of two community-based bookclubs in Southern California celebrating a spectrum of genres from horror to anti-racist/decolonial thought.
Dr. Marlen Ríos-Hernández is a 2019-2021 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation “We Were There”: From Alice Bag to Emos The War on Punk and Other Décadas Podridas is a full length hemispheric comparative study of queer Chicana and Latina participants in the Los Angeles/Southern California and Latin American punk scenes from 1977-2001 respectively. Her next project will focus on early policing in SoCal punk "Post"-COINTELPRO. Marlen discovered punk amidst the student walk outs during the early 2000s in Southeast LA namely in the South Gate punk scene. Home to the famous Allen Theater and Cafe Kashmir, the South Gate scene gave her some of her earliest memories interviewing with punk fans, bands, and artists. To this day, she dedicates her ganas, research, and community work to the punk scenes that nurtured her throughout her youth. Born in Huntington Park, California to Mexican immigrants she identifies as a queer Chicana and currently resides with her partner in Long Beach. She is also part of two community-based bookclubs in Southern California celebrating a spectrum of genres from horror to anti-racist/decolonial thought.