Among its political and technological predicaments‭, ‬America’s 2020s have been a time of steady upheaval‭, ‬crisis‭, ‬and change‭. ‬As we continue to wrestle our way through the agendas‭, ‬regimes‭,‬‭ ‬and big-data systems of this historical moment as teachers‭, ‬students‭, ‬and researchers‭, ‬we recall the utopian thinking of More and Marx‭, ‬which reminds us‭ ‬“to keep from being blinded by what seems normal‭ ‬‭ ‬to help us see that what is natural is constructed‭, ‬not inevitable”‭ (‬Elbow‭, ‬p‭. ‬83‭). ‬In the same spirit‭, ‬then‭, ‬we hope to meddle with the rhetorics of political and technological inevitability that define our daily lives‭. ‬We ask presenters to share questions and ideas that entertain movement toward‭, ‬rather than away from‭, ‬the utopian visions that we often disregard as unwieldy‭, ‬futile‭, ‬or childish‭. ‬What if we could decouple machine learning from AI‭ ‬companies‭? ‬What if we had a robust theory for fundamentally rethinking our flawed U.S‭.-‬centric version of writing research‭? ‬In‭ ‬allowing ourselves to think about and envision utopias‭, ‬we make visible the threats we face‭, ‬the workarounds we create‭, ‬and the‭ ‬bonds that give us reason to hold together‭.‬