Help write the future of Kentucky!

"The future of Kentucky" invites and circulates storytelling that currently has a solarpunk or ecosocialist vibe, but other futures are welcome. It's spurred by Kentucky Party candidates' needs for a vision beyond what the KDP and RPK have to offer, and concrete policy levers for getting there, but it's pretty wildly imaginative.

Don't dream alone, dream together! Anybody can suggest a topic, ask questions, write or illustrate their fancy, or respond and develop somebody else's fancy.

The website is new. Since November 2025 we've been dreaming these futures by 'zine and letters in the mail. That's still where it mostly happens.

If you want to help with ideas, questions, stories, visual art, or performance, drop your email or mailing address here. We use the subscribe link as a contact link. We don't send mass emails, but if we have your mailing address you'll probably get a zine or two.

We'll write you in maybe a month. We move at the speed of people, not the speed of chat. Work on whatever you have to say in the meantime. Call it the future of Kentucky without asking permission.

Our rules are that the future you dream up must solve a major problem for a large number of Kentuckians in a way they can live with. Statewide, not just one region. No utopias, no dystopias, just good enough, maybe slightly disappointing. Plausible.

There must be as many implementation details as you can figure out. Don't worry, other contributors know stuff you don't.

The federal government can't be expected to outright help, but your futurism can take advantage of existing federal policy and plausible trends. The future must be achieved with the active help of informal networks, county, municipal, and state government. We just won't have enough power at the federal level in any likely near-term to depend on any achievements there.

Contributions become public domain. We print most in zines, a few online, but other participants, or anyone else, can do anything they want with anyone's work. Reprint, remix, rewrite, perform, whatever.

Currrent works in progress in March 2026 (published only in zines or unpublished) include:

• education
• food and agriculture
• light manufacturing and jobs
• affordable cars and other transportation
• disaster mitigation
• a social/political "enough" (satiety) movement against absolute deprivation, debt, ultraprocessed foods, opiate addiction, compulsive sports and futures market gambling, and surveillance

What's coming that inspires no dread? Do tell, Kentucky.