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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul
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I come to #posthumanism from a science background, via #permaculture > #timothymorton > #francescaferrando . I think I’m doing it backwards, because only now am I diving into #literarure , #history , #religion , and the rest of the #humanities . It seems that many folx come to PH from a #humanities background.
I’m now discovering a whole slew of things I never knew existed! And finding that a whole bunch of people are studying the things I thought I was the alone in thinking about… so exciting!#4Ecognition , #cognition, #panpsychism , #digitalhumanities ,
#cognitivenarratology , #consciousness, #reality , #newmaterialisms , #dualism , #phenomenology, #autoethnography , #metaphysics , #ursulaleguin , #krishnamurti where have you been all my life? -
@agt @bookstodon I love that story so much (like so much of her other bittersweet wisdom!) Thankyou for sharing, and reminding me! Also, I'd heard that NK Jemisin had written a response to it, but somehow I hadn't gotten around to reading it. So, if anyone isn't aware, here's a link to that (although we probably want to just read the whole book of short stories it's from 😉) #UrsulaLeguin #NKJemisin #Omelas #HashtagsAtTheEnd
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ -
@jakeblount Hi Jake! Searched for you after seeing someone had started a music genre group...
Thanks for the #bookstadon link.
Like your #sff list , but I've been out of the habit...#AnthonyDoerr (#CloudCuckooLand)
#UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin
#RogerZelazny
#TerryPratchett
#SpiderRobinson
#CliffordSimak
#IsaacAsimov
#CoryDoctorow(I hear caps in hashtags help folk with screen readers, but my shifting fingers get tired.)
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«Le donne del millennio»: un’antologia con…
… Ursula Le Guin e altredi Giulia Abbate - Libri da recuperare: dodicesima puntata (*)
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https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/le-donne-del-millennio-unantologia-con/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Articoli #Libri #CherryWilder #CynthiaFelice #DianaPaxson #ElyzabethLynn #GiuliaAbbate #JoanVinge #librifuoricatalogo #MarilynHacker #MillennialWomen #NaomiMitchison #nonviolenza #recuperabili #UrsulaLeGuin #VirginiaKidd -
«Le donne del millennio»: un’antologia con…
… Ursula Le Guin e altredi Giulia Abbate - Libri da recuperare: dodicesima puntata (*)
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https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/le-donne-del-millennio-unantologia-con/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Articoli #Libri #CherryWilder #CynthiaFelice #DianaPaxson #ElyzabethLynn #GiuliaAbbate #JoanVinge #librifuoricatalogo #MarilynHacker #MillennialWomen #NaomiMitchison #nonviolenza #recuperabili #UrsulaLeGuin #VirginiaKidd