About Gardenpunk

gardenpunk is willful dystopia. it's the attitude that transforms fear of the future no one wants into the strength to survive it.

Characters

The revolutionaries who fight the establishment. And the establishment soldiers who fight on behalf of human survival. Or so they say. Get to know the Gardenpunk change-makers.

World

The Meld has its reasons. The Resistance didn’t form overnight. History is built on decisions believed to be made in people’s best interests. Read about the Gardenpunk world here.

Reviews

Language inspires, and inspired language adds layers of perspective to the original writing. A palimpsest of invisible connections. See what other people have to say about Gardenpunk.

Store

Books for sale, as well as posters, stickers and other bits of memetic paraphernalia (coming soon). Exchange your hours of labor for hours of mine. Kindle book available here!

About the author

gardenpunk is the seed that survives

Mar Escalante (aka Marlon MacAllister) is a writer and anti-capitalist organizer in Philadelphia, PA. Their writing has been published by Adbusters, Hidden City Philadelphia, the Philly Art Museum, Philadelphia Partisan, and Blood Knife, and other non-credited sites. Mar writes about radical freedom, sustainable systems, and the ways that idealized convictions become difficult struggles and then become realized. They live with three cats and work many jobs.

Gardenpunk Books & Stories

In a future where our species’ survival is no longer ensured, gardenpunk is the wild boiling-over of life

Beehive Buzz

gardenpunk is beehives on rooftops, phoenix statues with solar panel wings

Prologue, Chapter 1-3 of Meld Resistance

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Video from Meld Resistance Release Party

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dustbowl dignity, apocalypse persistence

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