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None

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Registration is suggested.

About the book:

In this book, editors Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older champion realistic, progressive social change using the speculative stories of writers across the world. Exploring topics ranging from disability justice and environmental activism to community care and collective worldbuilding, these imaginative pieces from writers such as NK Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Alejandro Heredia, Sam J. Miller, Nisi Shawl, and Sabrina Vourvoulias center solidarity, empathy, hope, joy, and creativity.

Each story is grounded within a broader sociopolitical framework using essays and interviews from movement leaders, including adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, charting the future history of protest, revolutions, and resistance with the same zeal for accuracy that speculative writers normally bring to science and technology. Using the vehicle of ambitious storytelling, We Will Rise Again offers effective tools for organizing, an unflinching interrogation of the status quo, and a blueprint for prefiguring a different world.

About the Contributors: 

Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and science fiction writer who has published Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, a national bestseller; Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction; and Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. In turn, Newitz is the author of three sci-fi novels from Tor: The Terraformers, a national bestseller cited as a “best book of the year” by The London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal; The Future of Another Timeline; and Autonomous which won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus awards. With Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz cohosts the Hugo Award–winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz founded io9, was editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, and currently teaches media studies at University of San Francisco.

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, a novel about a young woman who teaches her heartbroken mother how to be a witch. Bookseller Julie Goodrich with Beaverdale Books called it "one of my favorite books of the decade... a truly gorgeous story of love and heartbreak." Charlie Jane also wrote Never Say You Can't Survive, a guide to using creative writing to get through tough times.

Reo Eveleth is an award-winning reporter and writer who explores how humans tangle with science and technology and has covered everything from fake tumbleweed farms to million-dollar baccarat heists. They’re the creator and host of the documentary podcast Tested from CBC and NPR's Embedded. Before that, they made the hit independent show Flash Forward, which they turned into a book of the same name. Their work has been nominated for a Peabody, an Emmy, and an Eisner Award.

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. 

Ms. Cohn has been named to TheNonProfitTimes 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, honoring 2020's movers and shakers. In 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: "[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn." She was also named in 2006 for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online." In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property Vanguard Award and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.  

Ms. Cohn is the co-host of EFF's award winning podcast, How to Fix the Internet. 

Andrea Dehlendorf is co-lead at Democracy Takes work, senior fellow at the AI Now Institute, senior advisor for the Global Fund for a New Economy, and a consultant who provides strategy and coaching for social justice organizations and philanthropies, focusing on labor, tech justice, and economic justice. Andrea has worked as a labor organizer and campaigner at SEIU, Unite-HERE, and the UFCW, contributing to major victories with people working in the most unstable and precarious low-wage service jobs, from janitors to hotel workers.

She co-founded and led United for Respect, a national organization that builds power for people working in low-wage jobs by centering their voices, experiences, and solutions in the national movement fighting for the future of work, our economy, and corporate regulation. She was part of the team that launched Athena, a multi-issue coalition that brings together workers and impacted communities to challenge Amazon’s concentrated power.

Vida James is Nuyorican, currently living in San Francisco. She is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. She was a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and a 2024 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and an MSW from Hunter College. Her writing has been supported by Periplus, Storyknife, Tin House, Bread Loaf, MASS MoCA, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and VONA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Story, New England Review, and elsewhere.