Solarpunk and Storytelling w/ 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. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes 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