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"Today I’m cross-posting an episode from
If This Goes On (Don’t Panic), a
podcast about hope and resistance in Science Fiction and Fantasy, where I was a
guest along with Maurice Broaddus, and we had the most amazing discussion about
about how horror and hopepunk are twin reactions to living through The Horrors
of these times. I’m grateful to Maurice for that enlightening discussion and to
Alan Bailey and Paul Jessup for hosting.
I’m sorry I don’t have transcripts for this episode, but see the links at the
bottom for everything.
Before we get to the episode, which itself feels like a soothing bit of
hopepunk comfort each time I listen to it, I want to cover a couple quick
things.
First,
Bright Green Futures is focused on solarpunk, or hopeful climate
fiction, which I consider to be a subset of the broader hopepunk movement, and
in fact, when I started down this journey a decade ago of examining what was
wrong with the stories we were telling and how to do them differently, I
stumbled on hopepunk first. That term was released into the wilds in 2017 by a
tumblr post from Alexandra Rowland, but it’s been in the zeitgeist for even
longer.
I’ve been writing what I’d call hopepunk since at least that time period, but
in 2023, I wrote an article about hopepunk for
DreamForge Magazine titled
Rewriting the Future. In that article, I broke down the 10 elements of
hopepunk that I felt defined the genre, even though I talked about how it’s
more of a vibe than genre, and that I was starting to see mainstream stories
that weren’t what you would call hopepunk, but that had hopepunk elements."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
