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  • I have never heard of people using the term “punk” with any connotation of “homosexual”. It’s interesting to learn that Burroughs (and perhaps a few others?) once used it that way, but I’m skeptical that that has meaningfully influenced broader common usage. “They are certainly calling on this legacy” seems like a claim that needs evidence?



  • The Wikipedia page expresses it fairly clearly in the intro paragraph:

    Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The “solar” represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the “punk” refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.