2025-09-07 15:52:23
Just finished "Punk Rock Karaoke" by Bianca Xunise. It's a really cool graphic novel about a high school punk band's journey as they graduate and try to juggle shifting responsibilities. It's #OwnVoices with a Black queer protagonist and has a relentless optimism and no-nonsense vibe, plus great facts about racism in music history, and probably if you are into punk music, a cool discography woven throughout (I hasn't rally heard of any of the songs mentioned to set the mood, but then again I'm not exactly a punk aficionado).
#AmReading #Punk

![This photo shows someone [it absolutely me!] holding a vibrant red vinyl record album at home with framed artwork [by detroit artist Zubel Khachadoorian!] on the walls. The album cover features a striking gold circular design - a spiral or scribbled sun-like pattern with radiating lines extending outward like sun rays. The text on the album repeats "sun song" multiple times, and there's a small logo in the bottom right corner that appears to say "palmyra."
In the background, you can see severa…](https://files.a2mi.social/media_attachments/files/115/302/225/480/794/092/small/a2204ee502ba31a6.jpeg)
