Revolting Indolence
200 pages, 6 x 9
17 b&w photos
Paperback
Release Date:03 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781477330517
Hardcover
Release Date:03 Dec 2024
ISBN:9781477330500
Revolting Indolence
The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture
University of Texas Press
How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Liberating Indolence
- 1. Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning
- 2. Lounge Lizard Aesthetics: Los Angeles Nightlife Visualities
- 3. The Poetics of Latin Night: The Literatures of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
- 4. Slacking Off on the Mainstage: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Performance of Spectacular Obfuscation
- 5. The Textures of Our Daydreaming: Justin Torres’s We the Animals and the Art of Sarah Zapata
- Coda: Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
