#solarpunkethos — Public Fediverse posts

Season 3 Episode 10: How to Change Cultural Norms: Ariel and Christina Discuss

Solarpunk’s envisioning of a future that we’d like to live in isn’t just about providing a vision for us to aim for, it’s also about changing cultural norms in the present so that we can actually get to that future. Solarpunk storytelling is in no small part about normalizing the things we want to support and develop, such as sustainability, wild and productive gardens, social justice, and cohesive, supportive communities. On the flip side, solarpunk strives to make taboo or erase completely the attitudes and entire industries that are anti-human and anti-planet; we’re thinking about racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, misogyny, fossil fuels, petrochemical pesticides, overly industrialized agriculture, etc.

But, aside from storytelling, how do we change the norms of the cultures that we’re living in at all, much less to be more in line with a solarpunk ethos? Is there a secret sauce that works every time? And if we knew the answer, would we be even having this conversation in the first place? Tune in as we discuss.

https://youtu.be/ZU2gPNj7lRM?si=V41ABqQxJqc0mNBa

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Review: The Boy and the Heron

I (@arielkroon) watched The Boy and the Heron, the new Studio Ghibli film, with friends a week ago. When asked about solarpunk stories or aesthetics, people often cite Studio Ghibli films as proto-solarpunk, or solarpunk-adjacent, or inspirational to current solarpunk values. So when I had the chance to see The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki's (purportedly) last film, I was watching it with a small part of my brain taking notes from that angle.

And while the film is a fantasy, I don't think it's solarpunk. Or, not in the traditionally overt way that we've come to expect from Studio Ghibli films But I do think that, at its base, it holds values that are very solarpunk-adjacent. Let me explain.

The review is free to read over on our Patreon; I’d really like you to go take a look!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/review-boy-and-94842169

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