Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies

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."--Page 4 of cover