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Revelatory short stories from astute political thinkers that unveil radical visions of futures transformed by collective struggles for liberation
This collection envisions a multitude of futures where today’s freedom struggles have overcome oppression and capitalism and formed new revolutionary societies. Here, fiction authors, revolutionary theorists, and movement intellectuals take readers into liberated worlds, wresting the future from the cruelty of the state, private property, and profit.
Inspired by the liberatory horizons that have emerged in mass movements from recent history, When We Win imagines complex futures of disability justice, sexual and gender freedom, communization, and radical democracy. The stories describe decolonized possibilities, detailing how life after revolution might sound, taste, smell, feel, and look. The future, we insist, is ours to craft.
WIth stories by
- Eman Abdelhadi
- Ama Josephine Budge
- Alireza Doostdar
- Anand Gopal
- Daniel Sarah Karasik
- Sophie Lewis
- Mimi Lok
- M. E. O’Brien
- Vicky Osterwiel
- Jordy Rosenberg
Praise for Everything for Everyone
“A really fascinating glimpse into a future New York City after a revolution has transformed the US and much of the world into an antifascist, communist utopia…necessary and empowering, providing a hypothetical foundation for an ideal future.”
—Buzzfeed, "34 New Summer Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down"
"Every socialist needs to read this book.”
—Spectre Journal
“This book is an uncompromising, anticolonial, profoundly queer and trans, buoying, addictive, and wholly original creation…Everything for Everyone has no patience with docile truisms about how we are supposed to write. Instead, it’s a shot across the bow for contemporary fiction, raising the bar on how to crystallize utopian longings in literary form.“
—BOMB Magazine
“But if you come to Everything for Everyone for the politics, stay for the writing. Barring Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire, I can’t think of another author who uses an academic form to achieve a literary result so successfully. Each of the interviewees and interviewers has an entirely unique and authentic voice.“
—TruthOut
“Charts dizzying, delightful new futures for science fiction, urban planning, and engaged social practice. I spent 15 years as a community organizer and never dreamed of seeing something that so bravely, brilliantly combines liberational nonfiction and radical documentary with the exuberance of the best speculative storytelling.“
—Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City and The Art of Starving
“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien’s tall tales of the future draw on real experiences of the past and present. The book’s multiple narratives, equal parts hope and pain, merge into a prayer for collective survival and for the eventual flourishing of our powers of love and invention. Voices from as-yet-unlived lives instill faith that our becoming is not yet done. Abdelhadi and O’Brien have created a vivid image of the possibility that we will one day make a home of the world.”
—Hannah Black
“The special magic of Everything for Everyone is that it combines the genres of the oral history interview with speculative utopian fiction. Oral histories can show how in their everyday lives ordinary people can make the world. Utopian fiction can show the worlds we might want to be making. Every cook, or sex worker, can govern. And this is the life they might build from the ruins of this civilization, such as it is. Such a pleasure to feel one could be making the world over with them.”
—McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street
Preface by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
The Horizon by Daniel Sarah Karasik
People of the Caves by Alireza Doostdar
After the Shadow by Eman Abdelhadi
Sharaner Maash, or a Haunting from the Time Before by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien
The Hormonaut's Retirement Ball by Vicky Osterwiel
New Pleasures, Different Dangers by Sophie Lewis
The Swimming Pool by Anand Gopal
Felix Santoro and the Mars Commune Beyond Colonial Imaginaries by M. E. O’Brien
V for Futuring by Ama Josephine Budge
The Basket and the Bearer by Mimi Lok
The Thousand-Year Thought by Jordy Rosenberg