Surviving The Future
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Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by a new pandemic, fanning the flames of global uprising, these queers cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope while building mutual networks of rebellion and care. These essays propose a militant strategy of queer survival in an ever precarious future. Starting from a position of abolition—of prisons, police, the State, identity, and racist cisheteronormative society—this collection refuses the bribes of inclusion in a system built on our expendability. Though the mainstream media saturates us with the boring norms of queer representation (with a recent focus on trans visibility), the writers in this book ditch false hope to imagine collective visions of liberation that tell different stories, build alternate worlds, and refuse the legacies of racial capitalism, anti-Blackness, and settler colonialism. The work curated in this book spans Black queer life in the time of COVID-19 and uprising, assimilation and pinkwashing settler colonial projects, subversive and deviant forms of representation, building anarchist trans/queer infrastructures, and more. Contributors include Che Gossett, Yasmin Nair, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Adrian Shanker, Kitty Stryker, Toshio Meronek, and more.
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Shuli Branson, Introduction: Betraying Institutions
1. E Ornelas, Telling ‘Our’ Stories: Black & Indigenous Abolitionists (De)Narrativizing the Carceral State
2. Wriply Bennett, Genderless Siberia
3. Yasmin Nair, The End of Gay History
4. Jonesy and Jaime Knight, From the Figa, on the Catacombs, featuring Gayle Rubin
5. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Things That Make Me Feel Less Lonely
6. Zaria S. El-Fil, (Mis)Mapping of Gender Towards a Queer Revolution
7. Kitty Stryker, Seeing Queerness in the Time of COVID-19
8. Che Gossett, TBA
9. zuri arman, Feeling Unsentimental/Living Off a Cliff: COVID, Queer Black and the Human
10. Toshio Meronek and Stasha Lampert, "Gay Shame Hates Everything": Anarcho Trans/Queer Politics Against Neocolonial Conquest
11. Kai Rajala, Refusing Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada
12. Darian Razdar, The Question of Planning: Transformation, Abolition, and Queer Space
13. Adrian Shanker, When “Fitting In” Is Bad For Our Health
14. Beth Bruch and Sandra Y. L. Korn, How to Survive without Assimilating: Resisting Pinkwashing and Antisemitism
15. Raxtus Bracken, Adding Insult to Injury: A Case Study of the Institutional Weaponization of White Queerness
16. aems emswiler, conditions of possibility: towards an archival praxis informed by Black feminist anarchism and a critical trans politics
17. Amalia Golomb-Leavitt, Isabella Mancini, and Rebecca Valeriano-Flores, Unconditional Abolition: Ending State Violence Against People with Sex Offenses
18. James Theophilos, Ways of Seeing (Radical Queerness)
19. Yold Delius, TBA
20. Cat Kelly and Emet Ezell, How to: Queer the Grammar of the Body by Eating Bread
21. Scott Chalupa, Into History and Out of Quarantine: A Reparative Poet‘s Survival Kit