[1][2] Her work often addresses issues of identity and representation for people of color and the queer community, within American popular culture.
Starting her career in performance poetry, Rivera grew inspired by stories written by black, brown and queer authors.
[8] Juliet Takes a Breath (2016) is a semi-autobiographical, fictional coming-of-age novel about a gay Latina woman from the Bronx dealing with her identity.
[17] Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sent Rivera a letter, praising her work on the series and America Chavez.
Free is a comic book series that centers around a 15 year old navigating a post-climate change world with a plague, where mother nature kills greed.