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Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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Product Description Lambda Literary Award winner This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories. Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, motherships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492. Contributors include Darcie Little Badger, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, and jaye simpson. Review "These stories are a welcome breath of fresh air in the often hyperindividualist, survivalist subgenre of postapocalyptic fiction, and are essential reading for anyone committed to the possibilities of sf as a means to create new and different futures." — Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) "Many of the stories offer portraits of a dead Earth from which new life springs, and all are ultimately uplifting, hinting at a way forward through the darkness of the present. Drawing on deep wells of history and experience, these powerful stories are sure to impress." — Publishers Weekly "Each of these smart, stunning, imaginative stories has not only fuelled my imagination but also filled my heart, reminding me how dramatically different it is to experience work written with absolute love. Reading Love after the End is like being handed a glass of fresh water in the middle of the desert." —Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground " Love after the End is a book we need right now - and well beyond the now. The stories here are difficult, they're beautiful, they're hilarious and sad and frightening and hopeful. But more than all of that, they guide us back to ourselves and to our relations on a shimmering trail of song and stardust." —Daniel Heath Justice, author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter About the Author Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1) in manitowapow. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Calgary and the author of the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer and the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Jonny Appleseed. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction Joshua Whitehead Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction is a project I am humbled to be a part of. Originally, the project was geared towards the dystopian, but after careful consideration, we decided to queer it more towards the utopian. This, in my opinion, was an important political shift in thinking about the temporalities of Two-Spirit, queer, trans, and non-binary Indigenous ways of being. For, as we know, we have already survived the apocalypse; this, right here, right now, is a dystopian present -- what better way to imagine survivability than to think about how we may flourish into being joyously animated rather than merely alive? When I think about the trajectory of queer literature, primarily queer young adult literature, I take note of its breadth, and its longevity, yet it wasn’t until 1982, when Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden sprung onto the stage with a queer bildungsroman, that we witnessed our first “happy ending.” In her blog post “Queer Fatalism,” Sara Ahmed writes of fate and the fatal as overlapping with categorizations of queer inasmuch as, she argues, “queer fatalism = queer as fatal.” Within Indigenous ways of being with the term “queer,” which we have now braided into our linguistic systems, we are well aware of the fatalism