Become Ungovernable

‘Freedom’, ‘justice,’ and ‘democracy’ will not survive the stewardship of capital and the state. Become Ungovernable is a provocative new work of political theory that set out to reclaim them. Revealing the mirage of dominant democratic thought and the false promises of liberal political ideologies, H. L. T. Quan offers an alternative approach: abolition feminism drawing on a kaleidoscope of refusal praxes, and a deep engagement with the Black Radical Tradition and queer analytics. With each chapter anchored with episodes from the long history of resistance and rebellions against tyranny, Quan calls for us to take up a feminist ethic of living rooted in the principles of radical inclusion, mutuality, and friendship as part of the larger toolkit for confronting fascism, white supremacy, and the neoliberal labor regime.