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.