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Marcos Gonsalez

@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social

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queer 🇲🇽🇵🇷 author, aesthete, prof | latest book on José Estaban Muñoz & queer of color theory, Beacon Press | bylines: TSQ, Lit Hub, Camera Obscura, BOMB Magazine, etc| Lit Agent: Lauren Abramo

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 20d

really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 37m

"That's why your kids don't like you and your wife is fuckin on you"

This is the energy ICE agents deserve!🔥

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 11h

MANHATTAN — Truly INCREDIBLE scene today as a woman confronts federal agents, some masked, who just terrorized a migrant outside of the immigration courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City.

Video cred: @sandibachom

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 19h

my Queer Theory class.

changed the course of my life (made me want to be a thinker, a professor, a writer).

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

12. What was the best class you took in college?

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 23h

& published by my first monograph’s press!!!—University of Texas Press!

Uní presses for the win.
utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327937/

I Am My Own Path

A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets. Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) is best known fo...

utpress.utexas.edu

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 1d

I teach Julia de Burgos’ poetry in my Latinx lit survey course—so glad I’ll be able to teach her prose now, too!

CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 1d

New book out today! Prof. @vanessayperez.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive bilingual, English-Spanish collection of the poetry, essays, and letters of writer and activist Julia de Burgos

New Book Brings Pioneering Puerto Rican Voice to English-Speaking Readers

Professor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario offers the first comprehensive bilingual, English-Spanish collection of the poetry, essays, and letters of writer and activist Julia de Burgos.

www.gc.cuny.edu

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

“It is with profound sadness that House of gg announces the passing of our beloved leader & revolutionary figure in the TLGBQ liberation movement, Miss Major Giffin-Gracy. Miss Major, 78, passed away ... in the comfort of her home & surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas,” her team wrote.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Just turned in the first pass pages for The Edge of Space-Time and feel like I'm going to throw up because that's it, the book is basically finished 😅

The good news is that people said nice things about the book, which you can preorder here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

"The most politically audacious book I've read in decades . . . An absolute instant classic and an intergalactic monument. Read this now." -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

Also featuring an image of the cover of the book, described at the link

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 1d

abolish the imposition of house styles by presses

no more house styles!🫠😭

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 1d

a literary hill I have been dying on for a decade now😭

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 1d

purple prose is the best prose

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Cristopher Columbus. And fuck ICE too.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 1d

@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social’s IN THEORY, DARLING belongs on your #LatinxHeritageMonth reading list! 😉

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 4d

oooo this is a very good one!

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 4d

yess!

Cover of Michael Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics. A colour photo of four joyful (trans) women with bobbed hair crowded together, three taking photos of a subject beyond the photo, one pointing at the camera that has taken the cover photo.

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 4d

queer theory always has the best covers

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

two students today enthusiastically supported the handbook’s prominent display—professor goals unlocked.

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

keeping this literary gem close at hand to remind me of who I am & the queer ancestors I come from & to continue to be the flagrant homosexual that I am 😭

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

keeping the Homosexual Handbook handy & on full display in my office.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 6d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 6d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

a stunner of a cover! 😍

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 6d

*screaming*
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)

Illuminating Media

Reveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurativ...

press.uchicago.edu

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

The interjection is typically one of I want more details, more gossip, more clarifications, cause I’m so invested in our dialogue.

Sometimes I interject with something relevant to the convo, an associated tangent, briefly stated.

But I always return it to the person, & to the original point.

Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

I do this, particularly with my good friends.

it’s an indicator of my engagement, my close attentiveness to what they are saying. After this aside or tidbit, I always follow-up enthusiastically with “Ok as you were saying about X & X.”

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 6d

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)

Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.

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