Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies


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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.



Author: Scott Branson
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 05/23/2023
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781629639710
ISBN10: 1629639710
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Transgender Studies
- Social Science | Penology
- Political Science | History & Theory | General