Perhaps this is the power of queer love: to face this paradox, love after the end, head-on, unwavering in the truth of potential. This point is, I think, the crux of this collection: intimacy, joy, growth, and love can be imagined into the present and future, even in the face of undeniable collapse. What better way to imagine survivability than to think about how we may flourish into being joyously animated rather than merely alive?” (10-11). He writes, “For, as we know, we have already survived the apocalypse-this, right here, right now, is a dystopian present. How does anyone consider intimacy or eroticism in the age of the Anthropocene and the collapse of a world in the ruins of climate change and extractive capitalism? Even more, how do communities that have endured decades of violence and oppressive colonialism love within the apocalyptic? In Joshua Whitehead’s (Oji-Cree/nêhiyâw) edited collection Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, he argues that a turn toward the utopian is a centrally important political shift.
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