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Title: Drawing revolutionary horizons<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For its second edition, Front Rose invites its contributors to reflect about utopia and to move toward\u00a0revolutionary propositions: visions, practices, and strategies for living otherwise!\u00a0\u00a0  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Utopia<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\"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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We reject utopia as a distant fantasy, technocratic blueprint, or apolitical dream detached from material struggle. For this project, utopia is understood as a\u00a0method and a horizon, a practice of imagining and rehearsing futures that actively rupture the current present order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queer Futurity<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From an revolutionary perspective, queer futurity imagines futures where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n