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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. Rodr�guez, UC Riverside, author of A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

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

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