HOPEPUNK PEDAGOGY
HOPEPUNKing Your Pedagogy
An outline
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Introduction:
Interactive Workshop Elements
In the spirt of hopepunk, we invite you to have some fun and participate in ways that feel comfortable to you. Digital participation can happen on our padlet or in the forum. We also respect those who choose not to participate, or rather, to participate in ways we don't always recognize.
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Why "HOPEPUNK"?
In a 2017 tweet, fantasy author Alexandra Rowland introduced the idea of “hopepunk” in opposition to the dystopian “grimdark”; hopepunk has since been defined both as a genre and an attitude within creative writing. Hallmarks of the hopepunk ideal include: active struggle for improving situations despite terrible odds; defiantly creating art/ dance/ drama/ music/ food/ crafts/ lifestyle in the face of human and planetary extinction; and responding collaboratively, creatively, and kindly to extreme challenges and uncertainties Seen in these ways, much social organizing and activism can be viewed as enacting hopepunk, and we argue that hopepunk can also become a radical framework to set new thresholds for writing pedagogy.
Defining HOPEPUNK
For us, hopepunk includes defiantly, disruptively responding to the status quo, using tools of radical kindness and collaborative solidarity to actively work toward positive change–even when the odds of success seem insurmountable.
We ask, what could hopepunk be for you–in your bodymind, in your place, in this time? How can you imagine operationalizing hopepunk in administrative and teaching spaces? What are the challenges to hopepunk? And how can we work together to create real, applicable change in our individual spaces?
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HOPEPUNK with us!
We invite you to join us in expanding our definition of hopepunk pedagogy and imagining how we can work together to continue disrupting our spaces.
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What could hopepunk be for you–in your bodymind, in your place, in this time?
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How can you imagine operationalizing hopepunk in administrative and teaching spaces?
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What are the challenges to hopepunk?
