merritt kopas is a writer and digital artist from southern Ontario and the Pacific Northwest. Her digital works include Consensual Torture Simulator, Minkomora, and HUGPUNX and have been covered in The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The New York Times. She is also the editor of Videogames for Humans, an annotated collection of interactive fiction. Suplex, her first collection of short stories, will be released in 2016. She lives in Toronto with her cat Ramona.
We know that queers need fantasies. We believe that queers specifically need fantasies of the future to sustain us moving forward. We need utopian dreams of worlds that could be, because, as Jose Muñoz argued, without fantasies we cede the not-yet-here to the imperatives of reproductive futurism. We argue that we need fantasies not just of the future, but of the past.
