Disobedience
Marissa Yip-Young
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Agnes Marshall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Susan Hroncek
, Sharon Forzley
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Natasha Andres
, Andrea Pole
, Cindy Bodini
, Sandra Furlotte
, Barry Kazimer
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Kate Rutter
, Beth Dekoker
, Ariane Béland
, Natasa Ilic
, Laurie Burns
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Dani Kat
, Katie Kah
, Alanna Virtue
, Nang Pyae Phoo San
, Allison Dube
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Tanya Blake
, Jessica Doiron
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kym Marsh
, Kim Cappellina
, Margaret McKay
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Karen Kendrick
, Dana Francoeur
, Caleb Nault
, Peter Halasz
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Susan Baues
, Elmira Olson
, Lynn Bechtel
, Holly Elisabeth
, Huguette Lemieux
, Joshua Lewis
, Joe Mitchell
, Jennifer Clark
, diana kirkwood
, Shannon Lee
, Hoda Montazeri
, Randi Ann Doll
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Sara Conway
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paula Ritchie
, Claire Gear
, Denica StP
, Joan Clare
, Karen Nordrum
, Janet Miller
, Ken Gilmour
, Melissa Kohlman
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Meghan Barton
, MJ Malleck
, Wayne Harrigan
, Sarah Van Dyk
, M M English
, Emily Johansen
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Lisa Mallia
, Tanis Anne
, Melissa Dingwall
, BARBARA BELL
, Elaine Grandon
, Lauren Seal
, Blake Patterson
, Nicole Haldoupis
, Carson Loveless
, Ashley Hisson
, Heather Belliveau
, Yolande Thivierge
, Maggie Keating
, Melissa Poremba
, Lynn Andrews
, Michelle Wong
, Rachel Edmonds
, Vivian Thorgeirson
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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.
