81/ Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future (With Phoebe Wagner)

This is a conversation with Phoebe Wagner, co-editor of the 2017 book Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation alongside Bronte Christopher Wieland. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: What is Solarpunk? What is wrong with modern storytelling about the future? Playing with words (example of Permablitzing) Patriarchal tropes (‘men with guns’) and moving beyond them Is knowledge power? Working on the language we use Is there a crisis of the imagination? Going from fiction to non-fiction and action Community-building What’s punk about solarpunk Works mentioned: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Parable of the Talent by Octavia Butler Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel by Waubgeshig Rice Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy Recommended Books: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Cover Art by Likhain for the Sunvault book Music by Tarabeat.