Javier A González Rodríguez
@javierantonio.bsky.social
Playwright-Director & AD of Caborca.
Author of Zoetrope & Rubalee.
Avoiding windows until further notice.
Author of Zoetrope & Rubalee.
Avoiding windows until further notice.
I call this moment, “The Age of Tribalism.”
How about you?
How about you?
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I call this moment, “The Age of Tribalism.”
How about you?
How about you?
¡Buen día! Here’s my second story from the collection, “Ernestina & Other Stories.”
7 more to go.
Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/i-heard-a-...
7 more to go.
Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/i-heard-a-...
“I heard a pig being slain.”
From the collection, "Ernestina & Other Stories."
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December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
¡Buen día! Here’s my second story from the collection, “Ernestina & Other Stories.”
7 more to go.
Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/i-heard-a-...
7 more to go.
Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/i-heard-a-...
Starting today, I will be sharing every Friday 1 of the stories from my collection, “Ernestina & Other Stories,” inspired by my first couple of solo trips to Cuba, especially to the village of Trinidad & other tales from NY & PR. Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/el-yesterday
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/el-yesterday
El Yesterday
From the collection, Ernestina & Other Stories
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November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Starting today, I will be sharing every Friday 1 of the stories from my collection, “Ernestina & Other Stories,” inspired by my first couple of solo trips to Cuba, especially to the village of Trinidad & other tales from NY & PR. Enjoy!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/el-yesterday
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/el-yesterday
On Death & Dying
A weekend of facing her, whether real or imagined.
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Javier A González Rodríguez
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
Reposted by Javier A González Rodríguez
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
Having grown up in Puerto Rico I so enjoy having a fraught relationship with Cuba, be almost at war with Venezuela while hesitating about visiting DR bc of its relationship to Haiti./s
Divide & conquer truly pulled a number on us.
Love thy neighbor, they said.
Divide & conquer truly pulled a number on us.
Love thy neighbor, they said.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Having grown up in Puerto Rico I so enjoy having a fraught relationship with Cuba, be almost at war with Venezuela while hesitating about visiting DR bc of its relationship to Haiti./s
Divide & conquer truly pulled a number on us.
Love thy neighbor, they said.
Divide & conquer truly pulled a number on us.
Love thy neighbor, they said.
Se avecina un block party.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Se avecina un block party.
An actor once told me that, after rehearsals with me, she would go home & cry. I thought it was bc of my tone of voice, my strength.
Years later, ever so casually, she told the story again, with a new detail: she would cry bc when I expressed to the ensemble what I wanted, they would “just do it.”
Years later, ever so casually, she told the story again, with a new detail: she would cry bc when I expressed to the ensemble what I wanted, they would “just do it.”
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
An actor once told me that, after rehearsals with me, she would go home & cry. I thought it was bc of my tone of voice, my strength.
Years later, ever so casually, she told the story again, with a new detail: she would cry bc when I expressed to the ensemble what I wanted, they would “just do it.”
Years later, ever so casually, she told the story again, with a new detail: she would cry bc when I expressed to the ensemble what I wanted, they would “just do it.”
Cynthia Erivo has accomplished something I thought impossible: she’s made me fall in love with a musical.
Others had come close: Ciccone & Banderas; Zellweger, Gere & Zeta-Jones; Alan Cumming & Natasha Richardson.
But this is something else. And I already loved Ariana!
Others had come close: Ciccone & Banderas; Zellweger, Gere & Zeta-Jones; Alan Cumming & Natasha Richardson.
But this is something else. And I already loved Ariana!
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Cynthia Erivo has accomplished something I thought impossible: she’s made me fall in love with a musical.
Others had come close: Ciccone & Banderas; Zellweger, Gere & Zeta-Jones; Alan Cumming & Natasha Richardson.
But this is something else. And I already loved Ariana!
Others had come close: Ciccone & Banderas; Zellweger, Gere & Zeta-Jones; Alan Cumming & Natasha Richardson.
But this is something else. And I already loved Ariana!
And then I began enjoying pistachio lattes.
How am I not myself?
How am I not myself?
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And then I began enjoying pistachio lattes.
How am I not myself?
How am I not myself?
Some boycotts take longer than others.
Back on this app—my disappearance from meta has commenced.
Sad, honestly. I liked my ig photos.
Better times will come.
Back on this app—my disappearance from meta has commenced.
Sad, honestly. I liked my ig photos.
Better times will come.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Some boycotts take longer than others.
Back on this app—my disappearance from meta has commenced.
Sad, honestly. I liked my ig photos.
Better times will come.
Back on this app—my disappearance from meta has commenced.
Sad, honestly. I liked my ig photos.
Better times will come.
Thankfully I've been busy,
Blissfully unaware;
Oh, I saw it coming,
I knew it'd come to this
And worse.
May the angels take whole the lot of them
Into their multi-optic, feathery realm of
Revenge.
How's the blue sky?
Blissfully unaware;
Oh, I saw it coming,
I knew it'd come to this
And worse.
May the angels take whole the lot of them
Into their multi-optic, feathery realm of
Revenge.
How's the blue sky?
March 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thankfully I've been busy,
Blissfully unaware;
Oh, I saw it coming,
I knew it'd come to this
And worse.
May the angels take whole the lot of them
Into their multi-optic, feathery realm of
Revenge.
How's the blue sky?
Blissfully unaware;
Oh, I saw it coming,
I knew it'd come to this
And worse.
May the angels take whole the lot of them
Into their multi-optic, feathery realm of
Revenge.
How's the blue sky?
"What's In My Go Bag, You Ask?"
A propos of nothing...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Javier A González Rodríguez
One hot take that I would like to see vanish in the second Trump era is the thing of calling actual actions that harm people “a distraction.”
It’s the fascism AND the grift, folks. It’s not an either/or.
And anything that causes harm to vulnerable people deserves our full attention, period.
It’s the fascism AND the grift, folks. It’s not an either/or.
And anything that causes harm to vulnerable people deserves our full attention, period.
January 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
One hot take that I would like to see vanish in the second Trump era is the thing of calling actual actions that harm people “a distraction.”
It’s the fascism AND the grift, folks. It’s not an either/or.
And anything that causes harm to vulnerable people deserves our full attention, period.
It’s the fascism AND the grift, folks. It’s not an either/or.
And anything that causes harm to vulnerable people deserves our full attention, period.
Launched a Substack with, “A Short Reflection on the Loss of David Lynch.”
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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A Short Reflection on the Loss of David Lynch
It makes me happy to see much love for the man; how great that someone, looking so deeply into the beauty and the perversion of his homeland, could create so many works that feel personal all over the...
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January 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Launched a Substack with, “A Short Reflection on the Loss of David Lynch.”
Check it out!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/a-short-re...
Check it out!
javierantoniogonzalez.substack.com/p/a-short-re...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(3/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
(3/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(3/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
(3/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
My predictions for the incoming administration are so dark I prefer not to share them. Trying not to be part of the problem with alarmist musings.
But.
Who will stop it?
How will it be stopped?
But.
Who will stop it?
How will it be stopped?
January 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My predictions for the incoming administration are so dark I prefer not to share them. Trying not to be part of the problem with alarmist musings.
But.
Who will stop it?
How will it be stopped?
But.
Who will stop it?
How will it be stopped?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(2/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
(2/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
November 30, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(2/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
(2/20)
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
November 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The strangeness of the last couple of weeks cannot be understated.
I’d wish to remember it all, but how?
From trans panic to illiteracy; from (wrongly) the price of eggs to Janet Jackson putting into question the VP’s race (then doubling down on the hate!).
Fascism reveals who everyone is.
I’d wish to remember it all, but how?
From trans panic to illiteracy; from (wrongly) the price of eggs to Janet Jackson putting into question the VP’s race (then doubling down on the hate!).
Fascism reveals who everyone is.
November 21, 2024 at 6:12 PM
The strangeness of the last couple of weeks cannot be understated.
I’d wish to remember it all, but how?
From trans panic to illiteracy; from (wrongly) the price of eggs to Janet Jackson putting into question the VP’s race (then doubling down on the hate!).
Fascism reveals who everyone is.
I’d wish to remember it all, but how?
From trans panic to illiteracy; from (wrongly) the price of eggs to Janet Jackson putting into question the VP’s race (then doubling down on the hate!).
Fascism reveals who everyone is.