{"product_id":"with-a-little-spark-everything-can-burn-an-anarchist-coloring-book-for-all-ages-copy","title":"Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Che Gossett, Yasmin Nair, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Adrian Shanker, Kitty Stryker, Toshio Meronek, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a testament that otherwise worlds are not only possible, our people are making them right now—and they are queering how we get there through organizing and intellectual work. Now is the perfect time to interrogate how we are with each other and the land we inhabit. This collection gives us ample room to do just that in a moment of mass uprisings led by everyday people demanding safety without policing, prisons and other forms of punishment.\u003cbr\u003e—Charlene A. Carruthers, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis not an anthology that simply includes queer and trans minorities in mix of existing abolitionist thought. Rather, it is a transformative collection of queer\/trans methods for living an abolitionist life. Anyone who dreams of dismantling the prison-industrial complex, policing, borders and the surveillance state should read this book. Frankly, everybody who doesn't share that dream should read it, too, and maybe they'll start dreaming differently.”\u003cbr\u003e—Susan Stryker, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an essential text for this moment. This anthology is the toolbox we need right now, filled with contributions that show the conditions and the stakes of the crises we're facing through the lens of queer abolitionist resistance. Reading this book raised urgent questions for me that I had not even thought to ask yet. Surviving the Future is a much-needed resource for our movements , as we simultaneously face worsening crises and grow queer abolitionist resistance.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dean Spade, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a stunning compilation of cutting-edge queer thought. Cross-cutting discipline and genre, this irreverent and powerful collection refuses the poisoned politics of assimilation, demands we remember our radical roots, and offers a compelling but necessarily incomplete map not merely for surviving, but thriving in the future we create that we must insist is abolitionist, Black, Indigenous, trans, anti- capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-ableist, feminist, and unapologetically fucking queer.”\u003cbr\u003e—Karma Chávez, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalestine on the Air\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eQueer Migration Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fierce and fabulous—\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies\u003c\/em\u003e—is necessary reading for revolutions past, present and future. Incorporating a wide range of contributions—analytics, demands, pleasures, losses, testimonies, campaigns and tools—this polyvocal abolitionist project is already making our world queerer and more free, now.”\u003cbr\u003e—Erica R. Meiners, coauthor of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminist \u0026amp; the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurviving the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eadds substantial fuel to the fire, stoking the radical queer political imagination at a time when so few dare to imagine that another world is possible. May each chapter be a spark that lights yet another fire as we burn the prison industrial complex to the ground, including the prisons in our own heads.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ryan Conrad, editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blog.pmpress.org\/authors-artists-comrades\/shuli-branson\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eShuli Branson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a queer\/trans anarchist writer, translator, community organizer, and teacher. They were one of the organizers of the two UNC Asheville\/Davidson College queer conferences that inspired this book. They translated Jacques Lesage de la Haye’s \u003ci\u003eThe Abolition of Prison\u003c\/i\u003e (AK Press, 2021) and Guy Hocquenghem’s second book of essays addressing the May 1968 uprising in France, \u003ci\u003eGay Liberation after May ’68\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke University Press, 2022), for which they also wrote a critical introduction. Shuli is the author of \u003ci\u003ePractical Anarchism: A Daily Guide \u003c\/i\u003e(Pluto Press, 2022) and is currently working on a book on trans-anarcha-feminism. They often contribute to \u003ci\u003eThe Final Straw Radio\u003c\/i\u003e, a weekly anarchist radio show and podcast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaven Hudson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an activist, writer, and researcher with a BA in English and Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies from Davidson College where they cofounded the Asian American Initiative (AAI), coedited the student literary magazine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibertas\u003c\/em\u003e, and helped create and host AAI’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoalasian: A Southern Podcast\u003c\/em\u003e. Their recent work centers on wounds and the melancholic subject within contemporary queer, Asian American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBry Reed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a queer black feminist from Baltimore, MD, currently pursuing doctoral study in American Studies at Purdue University. She is committed to prison abolition, pleasure, and care work as tools for black liberation. Beyond her doctoral study, she is a writer, educator, and radical troublemaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMimi Thi Nguyen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, called\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Duke University Press, 2012), focuses on the promise of “giving” freedom concurrent and contingent with waging war. Her following project is called\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Promise of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published widely, including in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSigns\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamera Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Performance\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epositions\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtForum\u003c\/em\u003e. Her papers have been solicited for the Feminist Theory Archive at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47701663482010,"sku":"Surviving the Future-NewBook","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/6988\/8666\/files\/detail_1296_9781629639710_FC_c85f445d-5bff-48b5-ac3a-6aec5ec11a7a.jpg?v=1775236699","url":"https:\/\/www.redcurrentshop.com\/products\/with-a-little-spark-everything-can-burn-an-anarchist-coloring-book-for-all-ages-copy","provider":"Red Current Distro - Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}