ENOUGH
ENOUGH
SUBTITLE (a mutual anthology?)
Collected during the first months of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, ENOUGH: A Mutual Anthology offers a glimpse into a community collectively watching the world enter a series of ruptures and crises that not even the most vilifying agents of empire could deny. The work featured in ENOUGH offers a new understanding of the old adage of “the personal is political”; in a climate where each personal choice yields consequences with a delayed outcome, time spent in proximity with loved ones is just as much a priority as it is a risk. The science-fiction trope of bioweaponry has proven to be a cynically perverse truth wielded in the hands and lungs of world “leaders” against not only themselves but the multinational working class. This is reality, no mere aesthetic. In this existence, many writers find their work stunted or cut short by their material conditions, having to adapt within the haphazard reallocation of global capital. Other radical writers undoubtedly take note of this, and their work addresses the new lessons and forms of struggle undertaken during the pandemic: labor and rent strikes, car caravans, protests for community control of police and abolition—all new methods of class struggle that would become invaluable when the world would erupt (is still erupting) yet again into Black Lives Matter uprisings. No matter the background or style of each contributor, each work provides a unique strategy for survival and resistance, extending a hand in mutual self-preservation that squeezes into an ever-tightening fist. ENOUGH is the personal as a political struggle, a truth that isn’t going anywhere.
100% of proceeds go to the Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund organized by Shade Literary Arts.
Freaturing work by: Hanif Abdurraqib, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Brendan Joyce, Anna McColgan, Matt Mitchell, Jada Reyes, Dior J. Stephens, Kai Sugioka-Stone, Fargo Tbhaki, Mathilda Cullen, Steele, Nicholas Bon, Kyle Carrero Lopez, Delilah Pierre, Ava Hofmann, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, and many more!