From the site: should show our path to a clean, green, and just future. (Of course, we don’t expect your story to be totally rosy or pollyannaish. 180 years of equitable climate progress will involve hard work and struggle, and we invite you to show that, too.)
Imagine 2200 draws inspiration from Afrofuturism, as well as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and queer futures. The contest is also grounded in hopepunk and solarpunk — literary genres that uplift equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community, even in the face of despair.
We’ll be reading for the following core elements: Hope Intersectionality Resilience A society that is radically different from the one we live in today, and how we got there A focus on climate, with creative and clearly articulated solutions that put people and planet first .... Um, what did they just write? It makes no sense. I was actually thinking the Roman Republic or the Middle Ages for clean and green but just? What is meant by "just?" What exactly were these people at Grist hope to accomplish with these stories besides a lot of dead trees? Or dead dinosaurs or whatever?
As a disabled person, the future I envision is going not to be green or neat or clean. Perhaps civilized but that is about it.
Is the Grist really about 'being neat, clean, and civilized?' Is that to separate them from the great unwashed masses milling about?
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A clean, green, and just future?
Date: 2021-09-16 05:08 pm (UTC)should show our path to a clean, green, and just future. (Of course, we don’t expect your story to be totally rosy or pollyannaish. 180 years of equitable climate progress will involve hard work and struggle, and we invite you to show that, too.)
Imagine 2200 draws inspiration from Afrofuturism, as well as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and queer futures. The contest is also grounded in hopepunk and solarpunk — literary genres that uplift equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community, even in the face of despair.
We’ll be reading for the following core elements:
Hope
Intersectionality
Resilience
A society that is radically different from the one we live in today, and how we got there
A focus on climate, with creative and clearly articulated solutions that put people and planet first
....
Um, what did they just write? It makes no sense. I was actually thinking the Roman Republic or the Middle Ages for clean and green but just? What is meant by "just?" What exactly were these people at Grist hope to accomplish with these stories besides a lot of dead trees? Or dead dinosaurs or whatever?
As a disabled person, the future I envision is going not to be green or neat or clean. Perhaps civilized but that is about it.
Is the Grist really about 'being neat, clean, and civilized?' Is that to separate them from the great unwashed masses milling about?