How science fiction offers answers to the political questions of our time.

From surveillance states to genocide, colonialism and Big Tech present dytopic conditions anthithetical to life on Earth. Speculating alternatives that empower rather than devour can be political tools and cause for hope.

Through a discussion of the contemporary science fiction novel Earthly Playing Field, which connects ongoing People's movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story, author Radhika Singh and Omar Zahzah will explore how, far from an apolitical indulgence, genre fiction offers a powerful vehicle to undermine structural oppression and push the imagination into the realm of resistance.