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Queer Diasporic Futurity, commissioned by SAFEDI and developed in partnership with not/nowhere artist workers’ co-operative, marks 9 years of the Flatness curatorial platform for artists’ moving image and network culture, bearing witness to the decentralised QTIBPOC (Queer, Trans and Intersex identified Black and People of Colour) networks it has come to form a part of.

QDF contains a collective call to restore loving connections to the body and to nature. The collection makes visible a vital network of practices focused on sustainability, accessibility and futurity. QDF reflects on the holistic conditions the book’s contributors are creating in order to disassociate less from the exhaustion of everyday overstimulation and disappointments, and to begin to identify new, potentially transformative felt connections to build upon.

Contributions to QDF include:

• A foreword by Evan Ifekoya;

• Introductions by Flatness founder, Shama Khanna;

• Two reflections on Earthlove within urban settings and facilitating the Community Apothecary by Rasheeqa Ahmad;

• An in-depth discussion on ‘Queering Economics’ organised by Decolonising Economics with guests Evan Ifekoya, Amardeep Singh Dhillon and June Bellebono addressing queer infrastructures of care, redistribution of power and spiritual relationships to money;

• A divination essay by Daniella Valz Gen probing questions of sustainability and growth within practice;

• A response to the entangled temporality of diasporic life by Aditi Jaganathan;

• A wellbeing spell by Adam Farah;

• and a scorebook tenderly exploring introverted tomboy and transmasc sounds by Nat Lall.

QDF is published in partnership with not/nowhere artist workers’ co-operative and has been beautifully designed by Design Print Bind.