
Have you heard of it? Hopepunk? If you haven’t, listen up.
It’s got your name written all over it. Seriously.
Hopepunk is about strength through kindness, optimism, and empathy. Power through gentleness and intelligent compassion. It’s about ethics, justice, and standing up. Speaking out for love.
If that doesn’t describe a rainforest mind, well, I don’t know what does.
Hopepunk.
It’s Harry Potter. It’s Frodo and Sam.
It’s Dear Evan Hansen. The musical. The song You Will Be Found.
The School of Life. “The School of Life is a global organisation dedicated to developing emotional intelligence.”
It’s Lin Manuel-Miranda.
On Being. “…an independent non-profit public life and media initiative. We pursue deep thinking and social courage, moral imagination and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together.”
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Earth Guardians. “We empower young people by providing them with leadership opportunities and tools to bring their innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.”
It’s good psychotherapy.
Rebels At Work. “This is a place of ideas, stories, and resources for Rebels At Work, those of us trying to improve, change, and innovate at work…”
It’s The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution by Mary DeMocker
Love Army. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It’s a new term that was coined on Tumblr by Alexandra Rowland in 2017 for the fantasy and sci-fi communities of readers and writers and shared by Rebecca Solnit on Facebook. It’s growing from there. To my blog. To you.
Carry on, hopepunkers. Carry on.
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To my bloggEEs: Share the books, songs, movies, and organizations that represent hopepunk in your life. This will be our gift to each other as we enter 2019. Much love and hopepunk to you all.
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