hopepunk

== English == === Etymology === From hope +‎ -punk. Coined by Alexandra Rowland in 2017 as opposite to grimdark. === Noun === hopepunk (uncountable) A genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence. Antonym: grimdark 2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38: 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hopepunk. === References === “hopepunk”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.