Call for proposals
Title: Drawing revolutionary horizons
For its second edition, Front Rose invites its contributors to reflect about utopia and to move toward revolutionary propositions: visions, practices, and strategies for living otherwise!
On Utopia
"Utopia" as often been the name given to the depiction of an idealized society, expurged of any negative elements. We are supposed to long for it. We know however how this ideal has been built by dominant voices and rooted in the oppression of others.
We reject utopia as a distant fantasy, technocratic blueprint, or apolitical dream detached from material struggle. For this project, utopia is understood as a method and a horizon, a practice of imagining and rehearsing futures that actively rupture the current present order.
Utopia, in this sense, is not perfection. It is an unfinished, collective process rooted in refusal, experimentation, and desire. It emerges from struggle and is accountable to the conditions of survival, care, and resistance in the present time.
Queer Futurity
We understand Queer futurity as a revolutionary horizon that refuses the straight lines of capitalist progress, colonial time, and state-managed inclusion. It is not about assimilating queer life into existing systems of exploitation and control, but rather about abolishing the systems that make queer survival precarious in the first place.
From an revolutionary perspective, queer futurity imagines futures where:
- La vie n’est pas organisée autour du profit, de la productivité ou du travail salarié;
- Le genre, la sexualité et la parenté sont libérés de la réglementation étatique, religieuse et commerciale;
- Les frontières, les prisons et la police ne structurent plus l’appartenance ou la sécurité;
- Les relations coloniales à la terre sont démantelées et les écosystèmes sont défendus contre l’exploitation et l’effondrement;
- Les soins, l’interdépendance et la survie collective remplacent la punition, la rareté et la concurrence.
Queer futurity insists that queer liberation is inseparable from the abolition of capitalism, colonialism, and the conditions driving environmental destruction. It is part of a collective process of imagining and naming futures worth struggling for, futures that refuse the inevitability of capitalism, colonial rule, and environmental devastation
We are not asking what the future will be. We are asking what futures we are willing to build together.
We are interested in work that explores the tension and relationship between local struggle and global struggle, how grounded, place-based resistance connects to transnational movements, shared conditions of oppression, and collective liberation across borders.
Please send your texts to frontrose@riseup.net by march 30th for publication in Fall 2026. A more detailed submission protocol is available here: 👉 https://frontrose.gay/soumettre-un-texte-a-front-rose/
Submitted articles must be unpublished at the time of submission and until the issue is published, after which the author may dispose of them as they wish and publish them wherever they want without prior agreement. Unless otherwise agreed, all articles that appear in a print edition of Front rose will eventually be made available on our website within one year of publication.