Prole(tarian) M/others of the Future, Unite: Queer Social Reproduction and Utopian Kinship in the Speculative Fiction by Marge Piercy and, M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
摘要
Feminist and queer speculative fiction operates as a political laboratory in which to contest an alternative organization of care, beyond the institutions of racial capitalism. Such is the case of the fictional futures imagined by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) and by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi in Everything for Everyone (2022). Through a hermeneutics shaped by queer and Marxist-feminist studies, we will study the utopian formulae that social reproduction has taken in these novels, whose creative power lies in their interaction with the radical perspectives of their respective times around gender liberation. Thus, the authors’ writing explores a practical critique of queer kinship. Reading ‘queer’ in an expansive sense encompassing all anti-property modes of care [following Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, 2022], these narratives become a privileged vantage point into the family and gender abolitionist horizons that resurface as we interrogate ourselves how we can best care for each other.