Surviving the future : abolitionist queer strategies / edited by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed ; foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen.

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[2023]
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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. Contributing authors: zuri arman, Ryan Becker, Wriply Marie Bennet, Raxtus Bracken, Scott Branson, Beth Bruch, Scott Chalupa, Yold Yolande Delius, aems dinunzio, Zaria El-Fil, emet ezell, Amalia Golomb-Leavitt, Che Gossett, Raven Hudson, Jonesy and Jaime Knight, Cassius Kelly, Sandra Y.L. Korn, Stasha Lampert, Toshio Meronek, Yasmin Nair, Mimi Thi Nguyen, E Ornelas, Darian Razdar, Bry Reed, Adrian Shanker, Kitty Stryker, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jamie Theophilos, and Rebecca Valeriano-Flores."--From backcover.

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Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

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xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Betraying institutions / Scott Branson -- Telling "our stories" : Black and Indigenous abolitionists (de)narrativizing the carceral state / E. Ornelas -- Sovereignty imperiled : Blackness and "unsovereign" indigeneity / Che Gossett -- Claiming alterity : Black, gender, and queer resistance to classification / Zaria El-Fil -- Feeling unsentimental : Black essentiality and queer black questioning of the human / Zuri Arman -- Seeing queerness in the time of COVID-19 / Kitty Stryker -- When "fitting in" is bad for our health / Adrian Shanker -- The end of gay history, or This is not the world we asked for / Yasmin Nair -- Things that make me feel less lonely / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- The question of planning : transformation, abolition, and queer space / Darian Razdar -- Unconditional abolition : ending state violence against people with sex offenses / Amalia Golomb-Leavitt, Ryan Becker, and Rebecca Valeriano-Flores -- Adding insult to injury : a case study of the institutional weaponization of white queerness / Raxtus Bracken -- Refusing queer settler colonialism in Canada : history and trajectories of a movement / Kai Rajala -- "Gay shame hates everything" : anarcho-trans/queer politics against neocolonial conquest / Stasha Lampert and Toshio Meronek -- How to survive without assimilating : resisting pinkwashing and antisemitism / Beth Bruch and Sandra Y.L. Korn -- Forgotten on the front lines : past and present Black queer invisibility in Black liberation movements / Yold Yolande Delius -- Exceeding survival : militant memory as a praxis of Black feminist, anarchist world-making / aems dinunzio -- The figa / Jonesy and Jaime Knight -- Into history and out of quarantine : a reparative poet's survival kit / Scott Chalupa -- How to queer the grammar of the body by eating bread / Cassius Kelly and emet ezell -- Ways of seeing : radical queerness / Jamie Theophilos -- Genderless Siberia / Wripley Marie Bennet.

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  • 9781629639710
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