Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua WhiteheadMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I ran into one of the stories in this anthology, A History of the New World, because it was one of the short story texts I used in the Indigenous Voices course I was teaching last year. The story fascinated me because of its imaginative combination of climate disaster and how easy neo-colonialism is to fall in for us white folks. I loved the push back from the Indigenous characters and the re-imagining of my city, Toronto, as returning to a state of nature, watched over by a community in High Park (literally, a half hour walk from my house). It is still my favourite story in the collection, but I was fascinated by the remaining stories as well.
The stories are, of course, written within an intersection of Indigenous queer and Two-Spirited writing, as well as, of course, in the Indigenous Futurism genre. The stories explore how these identities combine as well as seeing how the futurism genre affects them. The result are some fascinating reflections on technology and identities. This collection is definitely worth reading if you're interested in science fiction because it breaks the white, cis-male domination of that genre in creative and insightful ways.
So, yes, I definitely recommend the anthology for anyone who wants to see a different take on speculative fiction.
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