The Future of Queer Communism (feat. Eman Abdelhadi)

Historical Homos

What comes after the collapse of capitalism? Mass famine? Global war? Environmental destruction? Oh wait, all of that's already happening!

It seems like, as a species, we're at a bit of a breaking point. Which means revolution is afoot, and we have to wonder: what the hell happens when it gets here?

For most of us, though, it's not easy to project what life looks like after the next economic revolution.

It's even more complex to wonder what happens to queer life: do we keep all our labels – "gay" "cis" "queer" – without a capitalist framework? Can we still go on vacation with our chosen families? Will there be any good gay bars?!

In this bonus episode, we team up with sociologist and author, Eman Abdelhadi, to imagine the radical, queer, and–get this–genuinely optimistic future that The Much-Awaited Revolution could offer us.

Drawing from her speculative oral history novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072, we explore what a world organized around care, kinship, and collective survival might look like.

Books mentioned:

• Everything for Everyone – Iman Abdelhadi & E.M. O'Brien

• Family Abolition – M.E. O'Brien

• Enemy Feminisms – Sophie Lewis

• The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin

• Against the Grain – James C. Scott

• The Invisible Doctrine – George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison

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