{"product_id":"revolting-indolence-the-politics-of-slacking-lounging-and-daydreaming-in-queer-and-trans-latinx-culture-9781477330517","title":"Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices--revolts that in turn are treated as revolting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In \u003ci\u003eParis Is Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRuPaul's Drag Race\u003c\/i\u003e, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; and second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, \u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcos Gonsalez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Latinx: The Future Is Now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477330517","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43311375089801,"sku":"9781477330517","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b1900b05-cd62-4671-9aef-fbe1e032c20a.jpg?v=1738054810","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/revolting-indolence-the-politics-of-slacking-lounging-and-daydreaming-in-queer-and-trans-latinx-culture-9781477330517","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}