#futuring

Trans people can and do grow up. 🧍

Trans people can and do grow old. 🧓

Trans people can and do have kids (if they want them!) 🧑‍🍼

Trans people can and do fight climate change. 🌍

Trans people can and do restore nature. 🌱

Trans people can and do make the world a more socially just and equitable place. 🟰

Trans people can and do work with cutting-edge computing. 🧑‍💻

Trans people can and do cure diseases, invent vacccines, pioneer surgical techniques, and save lives. 🏥

The limit(ation)s of literacy: meandering toward a (trans)media ecology of futures

Because, as I point out early in the talk, all futures are narratives, and all futures are thus media(ted). This has important implications for those of us producing futures, with regard to both the processes of (re)production, and the (re)distribution of the resulting product. Per Neil Postman, media are environments, which assign roles and preconfigure possible (and impossible) responses; understanding the affordances various media (and combinations thereof), and the particular ways in which they shape speculative narratives, is therefore vital to futuring as a critical utopian project.

Friend of the blog Paul Graham Raven recently posted his talk from the Futures Brought to Life symposium. 

TFD could be all about inspiring trans youth about the adults they can become, celebrating growing older while trans, trans people working in progressive politics, the environmental sector, community organising, utopian storytelling and the cutting edge of new advances in science and technology, you name it.

As a date I propose 26th July - if I’ve mathsed right (always a gamble lol) that’s the day exactly halfway between TDOV and TDOR.

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with Mars? https://medium.com/@miguelsacramento/why-is-elon-musk-so-obsessed-with-mars-a37ea7d4835f