Marcos Gonsalez
@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
queer 🇲🇽🇵🇷 author, aesthete, prof | latest book on José Estaban Muñoz & queer of color theory, Beacon Press | bylines: TSQ, Lit Hub, Camera Obscura, TIME, etc| Lit Agent: Lauren Abramo
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really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.
last copy of In Theory, Darling spotted at BGSQD in the Village!
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
last copy of In Theory, Darling spotted at BGSQD in the Village!
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“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
January 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
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When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
yesssss my mayor saying on national television to ABOLISH ICE!
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
yesssss my mayor saying on national television to ABOLISH ICE!
In Theory, Darling, my ode to queer of color theory, comes out in paperback this May!
In Theory, Darling by Marcos Gonsalez: 9780807008003 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A love letter to queer of color theory and how it has helped the author to discover himself, reclaim identities, celebrate queer joy, and work towards liberation Marcos Gonsalez found his greatest so...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
In Theory, Darling, my ode to queer of color theory, comes out in paperback this May!
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Our January newsletter is out!
Exhibition opening, limited early bird Spring Celebration tickets, Spring calendar and more.
Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/d78a61ade034...
Exhibition opening, limited early bird Spring Celebration tickets, Spring calendar and more.
Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/d78a61ade034...
January 20, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Our January newsletter is out!
Exhibition opening, limited early bird Spring Celebration tickets, Spring calendar and more.
Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/d78a61ade034...
Exhibition opening, limited early bird Spring Celebration tickets, Spring calendar and more.
Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/d78a61ade034...
can’t wait to read this!
Happy #PublicationDay, @crileysnorton.bsky.social & Darius Bost!
A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, their landmark study that traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day, is “a balm, a battle cry, and a beautifully subversive remix.” — @cheryldunye.bsky.social
A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, their landmark study that traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day, is “a balm, a battle cry, and a beautifully subversive remix.” — @cheryldunye.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
can’t wait to read this!
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If you have not read this comic, take a few minutes today see how early comics/graphic novels inspired new generations of Civil Rights leaders, including John Lewis, Claudette Colvin and others. www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_...
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
If you have not read this comic, take a few minutes today see how early comics/graphic novels inspired new generations of Civil Rights leaders, including John Lewis, Claudette Colvin and others. www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_...
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“I said I loved you and I wanted genocide to stop.”
June Jordan
June Jordan
January 19, 2026 at 10:27 PM
“I said I loved you and I wanted genocide to stop.”
June Jordan
June Jordan
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It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
January 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
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Senator Tina Smith says that she has received reports that another person died in ICE custody today. If true, it would mark the 7th ICE detention death of 2026 and the second public reporting today. It is only January 18th.
Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Senator Tina Smith says that she has received reports that another person died in ICE custody today. If true, it would mark the 7th ICE detention death of 2026 and the second public reporting today. It is only January 18th.
a re-reading of Derrida’s Glas is in order.
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
a re-reading of Derrida’s Glas is in order.
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Thanks Marcos! I wrote an article about Mucho, Mucho Amor, focusing on its achievements and its limitations: "TRANSLOCA(L) POETICS: Que(e)ring Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado." In Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century on JSTOR
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansiveand critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S.Latinx communities. This volume is compre...
www.jstor.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Thanks Marcos! I wrote an article about Mucho, Mucho Amor, focusing on its achievements and its limitations: "TRANSLOCA(L) POETICS: Que(e)ring Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado." In Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
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Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead.
They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone.
ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them.
Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.
They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone.
ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them.
Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.
ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from TX to Honduras, group says
Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mom were arrested in Austin on January 5.
www.mysanantonio.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead.
They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone.
ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them.
Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.
They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone.
ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them.
Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.
Saturday night reading: History of Structuralism Volume 2
January 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Saturday night reading: History of Structuralism Volume 2
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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
they want to eat our food & terrorize us at the same time.
These white supremacists are depraved.
These white supremacists are depraved.
ICE Nazis visit a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul in hope of ordering food and kidnapping some restaurant workers, but get met with resistance from EVERYONE inside, only to get their fascist asses thrown out. 🙌🇺🇸💪👏✊️👇
January 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
they want to eat our food & terrorize us at the same time.
These white supremacists are depraved.
These white supremacists are depraved.
a world without ICE is possible
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
a world without ICE is possible
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I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
all these images out of Minnesota of ICE agents being brutally violent.
You can’t reform this. Abolishing ICE is the only way.
You can’t reform this. Abolishing ICE is the only way.
January 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
all these images out of Minnesota of ICE agents being brutally violent.
You can’t reform this. Abolishing ICE is the only way.
You can’t reform this. Abolishing ICE is the only way.
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The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
January 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
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... Or maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and the occasions of love among and between peoples.“
—June Jordan
—June Jordan
January 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
... Or maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and the occasions of love among and between peoples.“
—June Jordan
—June Jordan
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We literally don’t need ICE for anything
January 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
We literally don’t need ICE for anything
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ICE can now spy on every phone in your neighborhood. www.wired.com/story/securi...
ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood
Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
www.wired.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
ICE can now spy on every phone in your neighborhood. www.wired.com/story/securi...