Wynter’s Queer Revolution is a passion project responding to the crises of our time. Written with the urgency that the current state of the world demands, Hannah Ashley is thoroughly engaged with the most pressing question we face today: how do we change this world? Drawing on debates and controversies within the humanities, WQR brings together political insights and arguments intended to equip organizers to intervene in the current political debates about how to move forward in the quest for changes. An important and timely contribution. –Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Author, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

In a moment when liberal academia is struggling to defend its worth to the American public, Wynter’s Queer Revolution invites us to imagine how the humanities can foster radical subjectivity and community action. This book brings together the best of two worlds that have been forced apart by capital: organizing and academia. It is timely and necessary!— Eman Abdelhadi, co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072

Hannah Ashley’s Wynter’s Queer Revolution is a courageous intervention, insisting that collapse can also mean possibility. Blending Black, queer, and decolonial thought with on-the-ground pedagogical experiments, this bold manifesto for a “Community Organizing Humanities” resists the accommodation and paralysis so common in the university. It speaks directly to scholars, educators, organizers, and practitioners who refuse to linger in critique alone and instead want to transform our realities by cultivating new, collective, revolutionary subjectivities.  –Nara Roberta Silva, Core Faculty & Praxis Program Head, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Author, Contradições da Horizontalidade

Against cynics and pessimists, this exciting book gives us a much-needed guide to building and fixing things for a better but as yet unknowable future. Ashley draws on scholarship in queer, Black, feminist, and Marxist studies to show how excluded and oppressed perspectives can actively forge the tools and the know-how to create new subjectivities that can care for each other rather than tearing us apart.  

–Caroline Levine, Author, The Activist Humanist