ABSTRACT
This article examines the role of queer relationality and utopian imaginaries within queer and feminist science fiction. Drawing on Larissa Lai’s concept of the insurgent utopia, as well as José Esteban Muñoz’s understanding of queer futurity as inherently relational, I explore the role of utopian futurity within three queer and feminist science fiction novels—The Tiger Flu, The Female Man, and The Kappa Child. Despite being written decades apart, each novel embodies the insurgent utopia as enclave found within queer relationality, in which queer love, longing, desire, friendship, and community provide the basis for imagining, and bringing into being, utopian futures.
