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.
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What joy! Ana Patricia Rodríguez's eagerly awaited new book, Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, is now available from the University of Arizona Press! 30% off with code AZFLR, uapress.arizona.edu/book/avocado...
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What joy! Ana Patricia Rodríguez's eagerly awaited new book, Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, is now available from the University of Arizona Press! 30% off with code AZFLR, uapress.arizona.edu/book/avocado...
can’t do just one:
City of God, Gil Cuadros
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz
My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid
Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes
The Women, Hilton Als
Tendencies, Eve Sedgwick
City of God, Gil Cuadros
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz
My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid
Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes
The Women, Hilton Als
Tendencies, Eve Sedgwick
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
can’t do just one:
City of God, Gil Cuadros
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz
My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid
Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes
The Women, Hilton Als
Tendencies, Eve Sedgwick
City of God, Gil Cuadros
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz
My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid
Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes
The Women, Hilton Als
Tendencies, Eve Sedgwick
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Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
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Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
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John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.
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The man is sleeping during press conferences and meetings. He is going to the hospital and not divulging what's happening. He is continuing to post in unhinged ways. He's 1000% UNFIT to work anywhere. Who would hire an 80 year old man who was displaying this kind of behavior for ANY job at all?
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The man is sleeping during press conferences and meetings. He is going to the hospital and not divulging what's happening. He is continuing to post in unhinged ways. He's 1000% UNFIT to work anywhere. Who would hire an 80 year old man who was displaying this kind of behavior for ANY job at all?
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The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
so far this year I’ve read 171 books.
let’s see if I can read 200 by year’s end.
let’s see if I can read 200 by year’s end.
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
so far this year I’ve read 171 books.
let’s see if I can read 200 by year’s end.
let’s see if I can read 200 by year’s end.
this was a great week to be a New Yorker
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
this was a great week to be a New Yorker
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
if you are in NYC, go buy one of the last two copies of my book at the Strand.
You won’t regret it!
You won’t regret it!
saw In Theory, Darling at Strand bookstore!
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
if you are in NYC, go buy one of the last two copies of my book at the Strand.
You won’t regret it!
You won’t regret it!
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | University Presses Face a Free Rider Problem
Colleges that close their presses are taking advantage of the system, writes Peter Berkery.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
tempted to submit my resume to be on Mamdani’s Arts and Culture team—a dream gig!
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
tempted to submit my resume to be on Mamdani’s Arts and Culture team—a dream gig!
saw In Theory, Darling at Strand bookstore!
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
saw In Theory, Darling at Strand bookstore!
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
My book’s in the perfect section, too: Gender and Sexuality.
to know I am one amongst those 1 million who turned out for Mamdani, to be one amongst so many who know this city can be better, can be for working people.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
to know I am one amongst those 1 million who turned out for Mamdani, to be one amongst so many who know this city can be better, can be for working people.
need to get my hands on one of these today!😭
it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
need to get my hands on one of these today!😭
a beautiful, sunny morning here in Mamdani’s New York City.
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
a beautiful, sunny morning here in Mamdani’s New York City.
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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!”
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!”
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Resign.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Resign.
Already crying profusely!
I know I am going to UGLY CRY at Mamdani’s speech, I just know it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Already crying profusely!
I know I am going to UGLY CRY at Mamdani’s speech, I just know it.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I know I am going to UGLY CRY at Mamdani’s speech, I just know it.