Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 11hThis ICE shooting in the Bronx has me so upset. a man was shot in front of his child, & then detained. such cruelty & evil. 000
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 14hICE agents shot and wounded a man in a car on a bustling New York City street Thursday afternoon, narrowly missing a child who was seated in the vehicle and sparking a heated confrontation between the feds and outraged citizens, officials said www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/08/f...nydailynews.comICE agents nearly hit child as they open fire on man in NYC clashThe incident happened at about 4 p.m. on Marble Hill Ave. near W. 225th St., officials said. 811889
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17hCOULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME? 503712930
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezCaribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Next Century of Black Studies Conference | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | November 16–18, 2026 | For more information, visit here: www.nypl.org/blog/2026/09... 021
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4354198
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezProtean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 07/10/2026Today we're honored to publish two short excerpts from the upcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968, alongside a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. proteanmag.com/2026/10/07/p...proteanmag.comPalestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968 [Excerpt] • Protean MagazineToday we are honored to publish two short excerpts from the forthcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s "Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948... 05328
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezPEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026NEW: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of AI to remove books en masse: pen.org/press-releas...pen.orgNearly 12,000 School Book Bans Nationwide in 2025-2026—Biggest Number in a Single YearPEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th... 107855
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 02/10/2026I am so very tired of how often I cite Sara Ahmed’s COMPLAINT (relevant far, far beyond academia)lithub.comHow the Culture of the University Covers Up AbuseMy task in Complaint! is relatively simple. I listen to, and learn from, those who make complaints about abuses of power within universities. Many of the stories I share in the book are about insti… 0447
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."recruit.apo.ucla.eduAssistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now! 05942
Reposted by Marcos Gonsalezk’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026if we lose someday women’s blood will congeal upon a dead planet if we win there is no telling. —Audre Lorde, “Outlines” 1105
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the intro to my last monograph, initially, was like pulling teeth. It felt so difficult, & then eventually it became pleasurable & exciting. This time the movement into the intro is so thrilling. I’m so energized to do it. 010
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026started drafted the intro of my next book. 030
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“If I don’t make it to Tea Dance in Provincetown or in the Pines, I’ll be somewhere listening for my name. You, then, are charged by the possibility of your good health, by the broadness of your vision, to remember us.” —Melvin Dixon, “I’ll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name” 010
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this week in teaching: The Watermelon Woman and West Side Story. 031
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026napping as a brisk breeze blows through the room. 120
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026never noticed before in all my time in NYC: a random, eerie convent in the middle of the west village. 000
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezBeacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In his monograph, THE SENSE OF BROWN, José Esteban Muñoz emphasizes that brownness isn’t reducible to Latino identity, that Latino identity doesn’t automatically align with brownness. Latino is an identity-in-difference. #LatinxHeritageMonth @marcossgonsalez.bsky.socialbeaconbroadside.comWhen José Esteban Muñoz is Your Hero, Today’s Pride Marches Have No BiteBy Marcos Gonsalez | Chanting, cackling, shouting, and frolicking up Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue, flaunting our booty shorts and glittered skin, we marched. It was June 2019, and thousands of us queer… 012
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These books stemmed invigorating discussion & debates. A Black Queer History of the US particularly generative. Provides excellent entry points intro queering/transing histories, anti-oppressive & anti-carceral frameworks. Students really appreciated it. 031
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Link for full review! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comRevolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture - Latino StudiesLatino Studies - 001
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To have a review published in one of the top journals in my field is really awesome to see. To know the monograph is circulating in Latinx studies, that it’s raising questions and contributing to longstanding debates, is everything. 020
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026another review of Revolting Indolence at Latino Studies journal. Ever grateful for the folks engaging/working with my little treatise on indolence. 131
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy. 12748741145
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We’ve got an Ivy League provost over here who can’t use his own brain to write an OpEd, he needs ChatGPT to help him with his sentences and thoughts. He needs the bot to write emails clearly. I’m so disgusted and also laughing so hard somehow 611535
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezAssociation of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please join us on Tuesday October 6, 1-2pm ET, for an update on the University-Based Publishing Futures initiative, reports from the UBPF working groups, and a discussion of future directions for this community. Register: bit.ly/4hk2PbR 031
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026working a few blocks away from a gay bar is a dream come true 040
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Both books have thus far generated engaging discussions. Lots of facts that students have taken up to discuss and to conduct further investigations. A success! More analysis of the latter half of each book on Thursday. 010
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026first time reading & teaching both of these texts. Both have been exceedingly helpful in providing historical context & entry-points into debates/issues. very accessibly written. Let’s see how the undergrads take to it. 120
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this week in teaching: A Black Queer History of the United States & Inventing Latinos. 160
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezCaleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Audre Lorde often used to say: "The rumor that you can’t fight city hall is circulated by city hall. It is a position that only serves the status quo." (Here quoted from her 1984 seminar in Berlin on "The Poet as Outsider") 0167
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezJosé A. de la Garza Valenzuela @jdelagv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We’re so excited to curate this!! Please send @drgetitboi.bsky.social, Tommy Conners, and myself your boldest proposals! Deadline: December 1st #LatinxStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #QueerLatinxStudies #TransLatinxStudies 084
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026City of God by Gil Cuadros. some of the most sensual, clear-eyed, & heart-breaking prose & poetry I’ve ever encountered. 031
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezFarah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“The office of the Provost is responsible for Dartmouth’s overall academic excellence and integrity.” 25618
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Where does art begin? And where, if ever, does it end?” a moving essay on the work & life of the queer Dominican American artist, Miguel Ferrando, who passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1996.visualaids.orgVisual AIDS | Miguel Ferrando Through Time and SpaceVisual AIDS Research Fellow Diogene Artiles situates the work of Dominican-American artist Miguel Ferrando across time and space, considering how his… 033
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127 24745
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains. 110930
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezLarry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Post Disaster Futures: Ruin Repair and Decolonial Imagination, edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo, forthcoming from @haymarketbooks.org An interdisciplinary exploration of how Puerto Ricans are redefining futurity in defiance of imperial violence and infrastructural collapse. 13014
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have so many family members living in daily fear of ICE. Fear to travel on public transit, fear to go to the grocery store, fear to step outside their home. ICE is a cruel, violent agency. It must be abolished. 020
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Saturday night horror film double feature: Buddy & Resident Evil. 020
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026those of us in fields like queer studies, Black studies, Latinx studies, etc, have always had to justify our existence. The crisis has always been here. But we also have always moved not in just in defense, but in unapologetic & strategic creation, worldmaking, not needing permission to do the work. 0132
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026exactly this. particularly those of us who research & teach minoritized knowledges in the humanities know our value cannot be determined or sanctioned according to hegemonic institutions. The work must be done because we know it matters, because we know it will forge a better world. 13710
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My family members have labored in fields for decades. They have expertise as to how to tend the land & grow crops, they work under grueling conditions & long hours. They deserve a dignified wage, that allows them to live a good, prosperous life. 042
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’ve been in many academic spaces where I’ve expressed that my farmworking family members deserve a livable & dignified wage. Equal or even better than our wage as academic laborers. And folks are always flabbergasted by this notion. The labor hierarchies & elitism are very real. 151
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezBlacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Opposing genocide is not an entrenched position. It is an ethical stance. 04420
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The original Broadway cast recording was a hoot. Barbra alone was chef’s kiss! The end, the failed romance, actually made me feel the feels. “We’re bad casting, that’s all.” Oof. 010
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Friday afternoon read/listen: Funny Girl. Let’s see why all these 60s gays loved this. 010
Reposted by Marcos GonsalezJustin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex... 45939
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026taught this gem today. excellent discussions around art making & connecting to queer of color ancestors, nudity & politics, & mourning. 020
Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Kandice has been an amazing mentor throughout my time in academia. And now she is my provost & Dean! Can’t wait to see the phenomenonal work she does in this role 💫 061