A review by lexischnaser
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies by Bry Reed, Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson

3.0

3.5 stars. Learned a lot and also thought “what?” a lot. Been doing a lot of thinking about how we need to convey abolitionist/other ideas that are largely rooted in academia in theory in ways that are more accessible to the masses. The average person (me) probably has to look up what epistemological means every time they come across it and that is not productive for knowledge and movement building!! It is hard for me to really get behind essays like these that (rightfully) critique institutions of power (higher ed) but then still use their money (sometimes unavoidable) and language to try to argue ways for how things should be different. Anyway