{"product_id":"failure-to-comply-9781943888290","title":"Failure to Comply","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow far would you go to have real freedom?\u003c\/b\u003e To have true autonomy of both mind and body? The narrator of \u003ci\u003eFailure to Comply\u003c\/i\u003e wants self-determination at all costs, and they want you to know what it did, in fact, cost them. Their story is just a little hard to convey, as they're not entirely sure where, or even when, they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, this literary sci-fi novel presents a world where humans have been unshackled from disease and their basest desires thanks to the genetic engineering and societal supervision of RSCH--an inscrutable entity with unimaginable power (including the ability to literally shape reality). In RSCH's march toward perfecting the species, however, there are \"deviants\" (including LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities) who are fighting for a different vision of humanity. But where can they find hope when horror abounds, projected into their own bodies and minds by RSCH?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCavar\u003c\/b\u003e is a transMad writer-about-town, author of five chapbooks, and editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place. They are a PhD candidate in cultural studies and science \u0026amp; technology studies at the University of California, Davis, where they're working on a dissertation about anti-psychiatry, gender anarchism, and identificatory self-determination on the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can find \u003cb\u003eCavar\u003c\/b\u003e teaching bicoastally, as well as in publications such as The Rumpus, Kairos, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and Disability Studies Quarterly. \u003cb\u003eCavar\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Davis, CA and they can often be found at their local library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Featherproof Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895444476178,"sku":"9781943888290","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01867a42-a4ad-4b16-a182-534deca921eb.jpg?v=1738272276","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/failure-to-comply-9781943888290","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}