Revolting Indolence

Marcos Gonsalez is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. He is the author of Pedro's Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land.

Revolting Indolence is a radical defense of laziness as a world-making practice for queer and trans Latinx artists. Marcos Gonsalez’s unexpected and highly complex critical moves engage an extraordinary archive, ranging from Angie Xtravaganza in Paris Is Burning to Valentina in RuPaul’s Drag Race; the photography of Reynaldo Rivera; the literary memorialization of Pulse Orlando; Justin Torres’s debut novel We the Animals; the art of Sarah Zapata; and the paintings of David Antonio Cruz. This is truly a paradigm-shifting work. - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance In this stunningly original and brilliantly argued book, Marcos Gonsalez compels us to take indolence seriously. Illuminating the liberatory potential of leisureliness as indexed by a spectacular archive of literary, visual, and everyday life practices, Revolting Indolence offers a much-needed critical framework that resists sanctimonious demands for affirmative representation while maintaining an audacious grasp of inassimilable modes of queerness. - Richard T. Rodríguez, UC Riverside, author of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Liberating Indolence1. Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning2. Lounge Lizard Aesthetics: Los Angeles Nightlife Visualities3. The Poetics of Latin Night: The Literatures of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting4. Slacking Off on the Mainstage: RuPaul's Drag Race and the Performance of Spectacular Obfuscation5. The Textures of Our Daydreaming: Justin Torres's We the Animals and the Art of Sarah ZapataCoda: Nobody Wants to Work AnymoreAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex