Disobedience

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Pub Date 21 May 2024 | Archive Date 21 May 2024

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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.

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...


Advance Praise

“Disobedience begins as a riveting story of sexy, trans-feminine, kinky rebellion. By its end, Daniel Sarah Karasik offers us a nuanced exploration of the challenges of interpersonal harm, accountability, and transformative justice in a revolutionary community in struggle. This book is both an entertaining speculative fiction and an aid in thinking through the desires and dynamics of radical movements.” —M. E. O’Brien, co-author Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

“Disobedience begins as a riveting story of sexy, trans-feminine, kinky rebellion. By its end, Daniel Sarah Karasik offers us a nuanced exploration of the challenges of interpersonal harm...


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ISBN 9781771668972
PRICE US$20.00 (USD)
PAGES 220

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