This week on Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, part 2 of our episode on Trump’s big imperialist push is now available to listen to right from our website, or on whatever podcast platform you use. In this episode we explore the solarpunk response to imperialism and look at real life examples of the struggle toContinue reading “New Podcast Episode: Solarpunk vs. Imperialism Pt. 2”
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Solarpunk vs. Imperialism: New Podcast Episode
This week, in the first of a two part episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, we look at the brazen imperialist moves Trump has made so far in his first month back in the White House, and we discuss his actions within the historical context of U.S. imperialism specifically, and western imperialism in general.Continue reading “Solarpunk vs. Imperialism: New Podcast Episode”
Demand Utopia! Podcast Episode 2
The second episode of our newly relaunched podcast, Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia!, is now available on our website or pretty much wherever you get your podcasts. In this second episode, “The Anatomy of Utopia,” host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about different characteristics, ideas, and alternative systems that have been proposed as part of past utopian visions.Continue reading “Demand Utopia! Podcast Episode 2”
Genderpunk: A Bold New Genre of Resistance and Liberation in an Age of Rising Cishet Supremacy
The genre is characterized by its defiant spirit and its unflinching examination of gender and sexual identity in an oppressive society. However, at its heart, genderpunk is ultimately about hope, resistance, and the transformative power of self-expression, it’s about sheer and unabashed queer joy in the face of ideologies and institutions that want to wipe us out.
Cyberpunk-Solarpunk Anthology Cover Reveal!
Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales edited by Phoebe Wagner. Cover art by Hal Hefner. With stories by Cory Doctorow, Cynthia Zhang, Brent Lambert, Izzy Wasserstein, Kevin Wabaunsee, Rona Fernandez, Ai Jiang, and more
Alephia 2053 Review
Coming out of nowhere to the awe of cinephiles all over the Arab world, Alephia 2053 is the first animated feature film in Arabic made exclusively for adults.
Review — After the Revolution by Robert Evans
Roberts debut novel kept me glued to the pages—a smart, well-crafted, and action-packed military science fiction story that deals with the horrors of war through a trauma-informed lens.
If This Goes On (Don’t Panic)
Our editors-in-chief recently joined a couple of the hosts and talked all things Solarpunk on the “If This Goes On” podcast.
The Matrix Resurrection Brings Lunarpunk to the Big Screen
The Matrix Resurrections creates what is—at least in my estimation—a decidedly lunarpunk world and brings the budding aesthetic and subgenre to the big screen, if not for the first time, then at least in the most high profile example to date.
Don’t Look Up: Netflix’s #1 Movie takes on Climate Denial
A film about how hilariously absurd our collective mass climate denial has become.