Cristy Road

She currently sings vocals and plays guitar in Choked Up. She has published three books and one collection of postcards, as well as numerous concert posters, protest flyers, book covers, and logos. Road has worked as a professor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

• Name — Cristy C. Road • Birth Name — Cristina Carrera • Born — 1982 • Birthplace — Miami, Florida, United States • Occupation — * Artist • author • musician • Genre — comics, punk, memoir, zine, illustration • Notable Works — Indestructible, Bad Habits, Next World Tarot • Website — croadcore.org • Education — Fashion Institute of Technology

Road's queer and Cuban-American identity are central to both her art and her political refusal to assimilate into mainstream or straight culture, and as an emerging artist she was inspired by the "queer punk scene in San Francisco/Oakland, CA." From 1997 through 2004, she published the zine Greenzine, which started as a fanzine about the band Green Day and eventually focused more on Road's identity, politics, and ideas. Her early artistic influences included John Kricfalusi of Ren and Stimpy, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Kathe Kollowitz.

From 2008 to 2017, Road played guitar and sung in queercore pop punk Brooklyn band The Homewreckers. Road currently sings vocals and plays guitar in pop-punk band Choked Up. In 2021, Choked Up announced they signed to Don Giovanni Records.

In 2017, Road successfully raised nearly $30,000 on Kickstarter to fund the Next World Tarot. The hand-illustrated tarot deck features colorful portraits of queer and POC bodies in a post-apocalyptic existence. While producing the deck, Road also earned her master's degree in fine art illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology, where she focused her thesis on the history of tarot.

Bitch magazine listed Road as a "Bitchlist" pick in 2005. Curve said of Indestructible: "So powerful is Road's candid portrayal of growing pains, it provides the perfect comfort for angsty, self-loathing youth and sends older readers back down memory lane through their own adventures and mishaps of young adulthood." Road's memoir Bad Habits was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award. In 2012, Flavorwire named Road one of 50 "up and coming New York culture makers to watch in 2013," describing her as "a fixture in feminist, LGBT, and punk zinester circles."

Cristy Road is recorded with the occupation graphic novelist. Classed in the genre punk rock. Recorded as historian, memoirist, illustrator, graphic novelist and musician.