Citations:hopepunk
English citations of hopepunk
Noun: "(neologism) a genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence"
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- 2019, Lee Konstantinou, "Something Is Broken in Our Science Fiction", Slate, 15 January 2019:
- Most recently, my Twitter feed has been choked with discussions (and mockery) of hopepunk, after Vox published an article in December announcing its arrival.
- 2019, Shaun Berge Donald, "Are you hopeful, punk?", Brig (University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland), Elections 2019 issue (March 2019), page 13:
- Read Cory Doctorow's novel Walkaway, a story of people just, well, walking away from society to create something better. Hopepunk can be found everywhere, it's a story we need in times of crisis.
- 2019, Izzy Lyons, "BBC jumps on 'hopepunk' trend with new positive podcast for millennials who don't want 'dark' dramas", The Telegraph, 9 June 2019:
- Hopepunk holds particular resonance to the youth of today because it touches upon how their lives “are precariously close to dystopic visions but who need to tell and hear stories of triumph in adversity, not defeat by cruelty”, he added.
- 2019, Matthew Moore, "Never mind the bleakness — young people want hopepunk", The Times, 9 June 2019:
- Anxious about the state of the world? Consumed by fears about the coming environmental apocalypse? In need of inspiration? Then “hopepunk” could be just the thing.
- 2019, Stuart Heritage, "In need of relentless optimism? The 10 best ‘hopepunk’ shows to binge now", The Guardian, 10 June 2019:
- Doctor Who has always been hopepunk in spirit – it’s essentially a series about a non-violent crimefighter, after all – but its most recent series was its most hopepunk yet.
- 2019, Tom Ough, "Why we should let hopepunk, the empathetic culture trend, spring eternal", The Telegraph, 25 July 2019:
- I can’t say I had particularly high hopes, as it were, for my fortnight of hopepunk.
- 2019, Annalee Newitz, quoted in Kayti Burt, "Are You Afraid Of The Darkness?", Den of Geek, October 2019, page 15:
- Hopepunk is really about showing readers that we can make it through even the most difficult situations.
- 2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38:
- From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being.
- 2021, Adelaide Film Festival Youth 2021 program, page 5:
- Featuring slick production design and gutsy performances, The Club of Ugly Children is a bold, hopepunk satire about fascism.
- 2021, "Biology As One Of The Fine Arts", Renaissance 2.0: Maker Faire Bilbao, page 13:
- From cyberpunk to solarpunk, or even hopepunk, according to the most optimistic, Vanessa Lorenzo preaches by example with her artistic career.
- 2022, Afterglow review, The Chuckanut Reader (Bellingham, WA), Fall 2022, page 21:
- This anthology draws inspiration from a range of cutting-edge literary movements including Afrofuturism, hopepunk, and solarpunk—genres that uplift equitable climate solutions and continued service to one's community, even in the face of despair.
- 2023 February 2, “Newly Published, From Climate Fiction to a Lost Congolese Princess”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Drawing from literary movements like Afrofuturism, hopepunk and solarpunk, this collection of 12 short stories approaches climate change with hope for the radically different futures humans might create.