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What is Solarpunk?
Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like climate change and created more sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as counterculture, humanitarianism, egalitarianism, animal rights, decolonization, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, and anti-consumerism. The greatest difference between solarpunk and its sister genre, cyberpunk, is that solarpunk observes harmony between nature and technology.
Not all solarpunk stories take place in idealistic utopias. Many tales are rife with compelling conflict among people and communities optimistically striving to reach that ideal while still struggling to solve some existing challenges. But most solarpunk stories do share commonalities: futuristic or near-futuristic settings; optimistic perspectives; equitable societies; and balance between community, ecology, and technology are inherent to solarpunk writing. In short, solarpunk stories are decidedly not dystopias.
Solarpunk Magazine
Solarpunk Magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and art that envisions a hopeful and sustainable future. Issues of our digital magazine publish six times per year on the second Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September, and November.
Our Mission
Solarpunk Magazine is a registered 501(c)3 public benefit educational organization that works to foster dialogue and inspire action on climate change solutions by publishing imaginative and thought-provoking solarpunk fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Through these creative works, the publication aims to envision a sustainable, equitable future while addressing the social and environmental challenges preventing us from getting there.
Solarpunk Magazine is dedicated to providing educational resources and opportunities that empower writers, artists, and communities through workshops exploring the writing craft, solarpunk, and climate fiction, as well as practical strategies for enhancing climate resilience at personal and local levels. Through these efforts, Solarpunk Magazine seeks to cultivate hope, creativity, and collaboration in the pursuit of a more sustainable world.
Land Acknowledgement
Solarpunk Magazine‘s base of operations is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional Indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their Indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.
We express our respect for all federally recognized Tribal Nations of Oregon. This includes the Burns Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Klamath Tribes. We also express our respect for all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home.
In addition, as our staff is located all over the world, we recognize the unjust and violent displacement of Indigenous peoples around the world as a result of western imperialism and settler colonialism.
(This land acknowledgement was taken and modified from University of Oregon website)
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