#positivefutures — Public Fediverse posts

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk

#hope #SolarpunkHope #solarpunk #AffectTheory #TheoryOfHope #ConceptOfHope #Optimism #naïveté #naïve #StupidOptimism #Optimism #PositiveFutures

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk

#hope #SolarpunkHope #solarpunk #AffectTheory #TheoryOfHope #ConceptOfHope #Optimism #naïveté #naïve #StupidOptimism #Optimism #PositiveFutures

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk

#hope #SolarpunkHope #solarpunk #AffectTheory #TheoryOfHope #ConceptOfHope #Optimism #naïveté #naïve #StupidOptimism #Optimism #PositiveFutures

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk

#hope #SolarpunkHope #solarpunk #AffectTheory #TheoryOfHope #ConceptOfHope #Optimism #naïveté #naïve #StupidOptimism #Optimism #PositiveFutures

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/hope-and-solarpunk

#hope #SolarpunkHope #solarpunk #AffectTheory #TheoryOfHope #ConceptOfHope #Optimism #naïveté #naïve #StupidOptimism #Optimism #PositiveFutures

‘If we fail to support our #LGBTQ+ #youth now, they will face #devastating #consequences’.

#Growingup #LGBTQ+ is still #unacceptably #tough, finds #JustLikeUs’ new #report, #positivefutures

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransKids #GayKids

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/if-we-fail-to-support-our-lgbtq-youth-now-they-will-face-devastating-consequences/