Hopepunk

Quick meaning: Hopepunk is a noun meaning A genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence.

Meaning

A genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence.

Example Sentences

From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being.

Doctor Who has always been hopepunk in spirit – it’s essentially a series about a non-violent crimefighter, after all – but its most recent series was its most hopepunk yet.

Hopepunk holds particular resonance to the youth of today because it touches upon how their lives "are precariously close to dystopic visions but who need to tell and hear stories of triumph in adversity, not defeat by cruelty", he added.

Antonyms for hopepunk

Common opposites include grimdark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aetherpunk, fantastika, pseudoscience, conspirituality, xenofiction, fantasy.

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