Welcome to Project 2052
a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art, and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
Series editors: Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O’Brien, in close collaboration with Common Notions Press
Letter from the editors
Dear readers, writers, comrades,
We want to invite you to contribute a piece of short fiction set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). We have both been overwhelmed and honored by the many ways Everything for Everyone has been collaboratively taken up in movement spaces. It is clear there is a yearning for radical, utopian envisioning throughout our movements, and a deep need to articulate our shared revolutionary desires. Presenting images of the world we are fighting for can be a powerful contribution to our organizing, our solidarity for each other, and our political praxis.
If you are interested in contributing, we ask as a first step you send a story summary to our email address, project2052@commonnotions.org. This pitch would ideally be one to three paragraphs long, describing your intended setting, characters, tone, major political and historical events referenced, social movements drawn from, intended word count, and your intended deadline for submission. If you aren’t sure about some of these, let us know and we can talk.
We will accept pitches of story summaries on a rolling deadline as we solicit work for the website’s initial launch. Accepted submissions receive a small honorarium.
We welcome a variety of styles of short fiction, including fictive oral histories like those in Everything for Everyone. We are also open to pitches for visual work, poetry, flash fiction and other genres. Collaboratively-written or created pieces are welcome too!
The two of us would be excited to work with you in editing your piece if helpful, both politically and stylistically. We are also available for talking or corresponding about your conceptions for a piece. Let us know what would be helpful. You are also more than welcome to point us to other comrades and networks you think would be interested in contributing.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Yours,
Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O’Brien
how to submit
Email your story pitch as a summary to project2052@commonnotions.org. Ideally, pitches are one to three paragraphs long, describing intended setting, characters, tone, major political and historical events referenced, social movements drawn from, intended word count, and intended deadline for submission.
We accept pitches of story summaries on a rolling deadline. Successful submissions will receive a small honorarium.
Feel free to write to us with any questions.
About the Series Editors
M. E. O’Brien writes on gender freedom and communism. As well as Everything for Everyone, she is also author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023). She is a co-editor of Pinko, a magazine on gay communism. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, Catalan and Turkish. Previously, O’Brien coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed her PhD at NYU, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. She is a practicing psychotherapist, a clinical social worker, and in formation as a psychoanalyst.
Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer based in Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Arab and Muslim communities in the United States, and has been cited by NPR, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and other outlets. She co-wrote the revolutionary sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press 2022), and she writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times Magazine. She is a long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation and is currently active through Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine at UChicago, Scholars for Social Justice and other formations.
Support the series
Join our monthly sustainer program and support “Project 2052.“ Funds raised will directly support the series with writer honoraria, editorial and production support, and some prizes and giveaways as well.
About the book
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
“Every socialist needs to read this book. Every abolitionist, every Marxist, every anarchist, every revolutionary needs to read this book. Every person who has ever wondered how the world will function after the final retirement of the market, the commodity form, money, wages, rent, coercive gender roles, prisons, police, class, nation states, borders, profit, and in general the dominating power of any humans over any others.”—Spectre Journal
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Author: M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
Publisher: Common Notions
ISBN: 9781942173588 (print)
ISBN: 9781942173663 (eBook)
Published: August 2022
Format: Paperback
Size: 5 x 8
Page count: 256
Subjects: Speculative Fiction/Revolution/Communism