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 liberationMarcos Gonsalez found his greatest source of joy when he encountered queer theory in college. As they put it, "queers and college go together like peanut butter and jelly," and for them, this was especially true. Seeing himself reflected in the work José Esteban Muñoz was life-changing: Muñoz's theory of di...

2025 Honorable Mention, John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA)2025 Honorable Mention, Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association and the Q/T Caucus of the American Studies AssociationHow indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.

Al suo esordio, Marcos Gonsalez esplora il memoir autobiografico e lo mescola al saggio. Il risultato è un libro di auto-teoria in cui ogni capitolo si allarga a diventare manifesto di cosa voglia dire essere figlio di immigrati negli Stati Uniti.Gonsalez cerca nelle immagini, nelle fotografie, nei filmati della propria infanzia – e poi tra le pagine dei romanzi, nei film, nei documentari in tv – le tracce di una storia delle Americhe che resta, come le vite di chi la racconta, sospesa sul...

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 liberationMarcos Gonsalez found his greatest source of joy when he encountered queer theory in college. As they put it, "queers and college go together like peanut butter and jelly," and for them, this was especially true. Seeing himself reflected in the work José Esteban Muñoz was life-changing: Muñoz's theory of di...

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacki...

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor Rigoberto Gonzalez writes in his introduction, “Writing amplifies our questions and illumina...