Disobedience

By (author): Daniel Sarah Karasik

Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the camp’s repression.

As the complexities of this place unfold before Shael, Disobedience asks: How can a community redress harm without reproducing unaccountable forms of violence? How do we heal? What might a compassionate, sustainable model of justice look like?

This is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us.

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Daniel Sarah Karasik

A writer in Toronto, Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) is a co-founder and coordinator of Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty, a network that seeks to connect artists with grassroots social movements for radical change. Their recent writing on prison abolition, trans liberation, antisemitism, and socialist aesthetics appears in Briarpatch Magazine. Their Dora Mavor Moore Award–nominated writing for the stage has been produced across Canada, in the US, and in translation in Germany. They are also the author of several books of drama, poetry, and fiction, most recently the short story collection Faithful and Other Stories (Guernica Editions). Honours include the CBC Short Story Prize and the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award.


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Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the camp’s repression.

As the complexities of this place unfold before Shael, Disobedience asks: How can a community redress harm without reproducing unaccountable forms of violence? How do we heal? What might a compassionate, sustainable model of justice look like?

This is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us.

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Dimensions:

260 Pages
8in * 5.25in * 0.7in
0.2lb

Published:

May 21, 2024

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Book*hug Press

ISBN:

9781771668972

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Dystopian

Language:

eng

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