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
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.
the sheer giddiness I felt voting for Zohran Mamdani today!
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
the sheer giddiness I felt voting for Zohran Mamdani today!
Zohran canvassers came to my door & I EAGERLY told them I’m voting for him on Tuesday.
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Zohran canvassers came to my door & I EAGERLY told them I’m voting for him on Tuesday.
watching Gypsy (1993) with Bette Midler for the first time & it’s soooo good—everything my old gay spirit needed!
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
watching Gypsy (1993) with Bette Midler for the first time & it’s soooo good—everything my old gay spirit needed!
teaching some amazing books this week:
The Cha Cha Files by Maya Chinchilla
I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat by @livesinpages.bsky.social
Black Panther Penguin Classics Edition
The Cha Cha Files by Maya Chinchilla
I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat by @livesinpages.bsky.social
Black Panther Penguin Classics Edition
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
teaching some amazing books this week:
The Cha Cha Files by Maya Chinchilla
I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat by @livesinpages.bsky.social
Black Panther Penguin Classics Edition
The Cha Cha Files by Maya Chinchilla
I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat by @livesinpages.bsky.social
Black Panther Penguin Classics Edition
queer theory always has the best covers
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
queer theory always has the best covers
keeping the Homosexual Handbook handy & on full display in my office.
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
keeping the Homosexual Handbook handy & on full display in my office.
shooting her beams of light into a disco ball to maximize her brightness impact—talk about my kinda hero!
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
shooting her beams of light into a disco ball to maximize her brightness impact—talk about my kinda hero!
some afternoon reading of the Dazzler omnibus. 💫
October 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
some afternoon reading of the Dazzler omnibus. 💫
Especially appreciated this part on how queer & trans books are especially targeted by book bans.
They want our literature silenced & gone from schools & libraries.
They want our literature silenced & gone from schools & libraries.
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Especially appreciated this part on how queer & trans books are especially targeted by book bans.
They want our literature silenced & gone from schools & libraries.
They want our literature silenced & gone from schools & libraries.
“So it’s best if we just imagine your favorite time in the dark, naked, with someone who made you feel like you weren’t missing.”
Oof this play, this writing, perfectly exquisite.
Oof this play, this writing, perfectly exquisite.
September 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“So it’s best if we just imagine your favorite time in the dark, naked, with someone who made you feel like you weren’t missing.”
Oof this play, this writing, perfectly exquisite.
Oof this play, this writing, perfectly exquisite.
“I’ve emptied all my insides to come die here I flushed water up myself to come here, to be what I want to be”
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“I’ve emptied all my insides to come die here I flushed water up myself to come here, to be what I want to be”
“Ammonia to clean piss, and piss-poor, and poppers is what it smelled like, like skin sloughed, and scalp-sweet, and that yuck-yum, sweat-sweet of rough opened legs, and bleach, chemical flowers, like cleaned floors dirtied and dirty floors cleaned!”
September 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Ammonia to clean piss, and piss-poor, and poppers is what it smelled like, like skin sloughed, and scalp-sweet, and that yuck-yum, sweat-sweet of rough opened legs, and bleach, chemical flowers, like cleaned floors dirtied and dirty floors cleaned!”
Bathhouse.pptx by Jesús l. Valles is an incredibly moving play about the queer pleasures, histories, & collective possibilities, of bathhouses.
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bathhouse.pptx by Jesús l. Valles is an incredibly moving play about the queer pleasures, histories, & collective possibilities, of bathhouses.
really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.
front row seats this evening to see Julio Torres’ latest show, Color Theories!
September 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
front row seats this evening to see Julio Torres’ latest show, Color Theories!
my fav part of the review: an analysis of my section on Kant!
September 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
my fav part of the review: an analysis of my section on Kant!
a review of Revolting Indolence in one of the top journals in literary studies, MELUS!
grateful to be reviewed so closely & critically.
grateful to be reviewed so closely & critically.
September 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
a review of Revolting Indolence in one of the top journals in literary studies, MELUS!
grateful to be reviewed so closely & critically.
grateful to be reviewed so closely & critically.
“My teachers put these works together to get us to see that theory—like archival work for some, fiction writing for others—was a way to answer the question of how we got to this grim and head-scratching present.”
August 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“My teachers put these works together to get us to see that theory—like archival work for some, fiction writing for others—was a way to answer the question of how we got to this grim and head-scratching present.”
“If we overvalue the work of administration and undervalue intellectual work, then we forfeit the right to disrupt those [minoritized] conditions and to reinterpret people’s value and potential.”
Intellective work is what the university is about, why we do the work we do—a needed reminder.
Intellective work is what the university is about, why we do the work we do—a needed reminder.
August 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“If we overvalue the work of administration and undervalue intellectual work, then we forfeit the right to disrupt those [minoritized] conditions and to reinterpret people’s value and potential.”
Intellective work is what the university is about, why we do the work we do—a needed reminder.
Intellective work is what the university is about, why we do the work we do—a needed reminder.
“criminalization of students, the extension of university administration, the use of ideologies of diversity and tolerance against social insurgencies, and the expansion of police forces on campus yards”
what defines the university today, but not what it has to be…
what defines the university today, but not what it has to be…
August 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“criminalization of students, the extension of university administration, the use of ideologies of diversity and tolerance against social insurgencies, and the expansion of police forces on campus yards”
what defines the university today, but not what it has to be…
what defines the university today, but not what it has to be…
Roderick A. Ferguson’s We Protest is a perfect book to start off the semester.
A vital reminder of why we must defend students’ right to protest & make demands of the university to do better.
A vital reminder of why we must defend students’ right to protest & make demands of the university to do better.
August 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Roderick A. Ferguson’s We Protest is a perfect book to start off the semester.
A vital reminder of why we must defend students’ right to protest & make demands of the university to do better.
A vital reminder of why we must defend students’ right to protest & make demands of the university to do better.
“It is essential that we build into our teaching vision a place where spirit matters, a place where our spirits can be renewed and our souls restored. We must become as articulate in naming our joys as we are in naming our suffering.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
August 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“It is essential that we build into our teaching vision a place where spirit matters, a place where our spirits can be renewed and our souls restored. We must become as articulate in naming our joys as we are in naming our suffering.”
—bell hooks
—bell hooks
“Progressive education, education as the practice of freedom, enables us to confront feelings of loss and restore our sense of connection. It teaches us to create community.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“Progressive education, education as the practice of freedom, enables us to confront feelings of loss and restore our sense of connection. It teaches us to create community.”
“we can make the classroom a place where we help students come out of shame…to experience their vulnerability among a community of learners who will dare to hold them up should they falter or fail when triggered by past scenarios of shame—a community that will constantly give recognition & respect.”
August 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“we can make the classroom a place where we help students come out of shame…to experience their vulnerability among a community of learners who will dare to hold them up should they falter or fail when triggered by past scenarios of shame—a community that will constantly give recognition & respect.”