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"Humans of New York" (HONY) is a popular photography project, with a global fandom and great outreach on social media platforms like Facebook. However, the creator of HONY has placed heavy restrictions on political discourse within the fan page in order to maintain the spirit of goodwill and positivity for which the fandom has come to be renowned. Yet the culture of positivity on HONY may be problematized: two case studies show that positivity was utilized to protect white men at the expense of women of color. HONY fans have pushed back against the culture of positivity by reclaiming the right to engage in political discourse or by creating alternate spin-off groups that engage with local political issues. Case studies of HONY provoke questions about what it means to engage in political discourse in a fandom that is premised on lying outside the realm of politics.

"Humans of New York" (HONY) is a popular photography project, with a global fandom and great outreach on social media platforms like Facebook. However, the creator of HONY has placed heavy restrictions on political discourse within the fan page in order to maintain the spirit of goodwill and positivity for which the fandom has come to be renowned. Yet the culture of positivity on HONY may be problematized: two case studies show that positivity was utilized to protect white men at the expense of women of color. HONY fans have pushed back against the culture of positivity by reclaiming the right to engage in political discourse or by creating alternate spin-off groups that engage with local political issues. Case studies of HONY provoke questions about what it means to engage in political discourse in a fandom that is premised on lying outside the realm of politics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: -- Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World -- 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney's Star Wars -- 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination -- 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times -- 4 Family Sitcoms' Political Front -- 5 "To Hell with Dreams": Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season -- Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change -- 6 Imagining Intersectionality: -- 7 Code for What -- 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay -- 9 Everyone Wants Peace? -- Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents -- 10 Learning to Imagine Better: -- 11 Black Girls Are from the Future: -- 12 "Dance to the Distortion": -- 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past: -- 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: -- 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity -- 16 DIY VR: -- Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own -- 17 Training Activists to Be Fans: -- 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media: -- 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back: -- 20 For the Horde: -- 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts: -- 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service -- Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community -- 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, "Born in the USA" Goes My Indian Heart? -- 24 "Our" Hamilton: -- 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York -- 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition -- Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places -- 27 "Without My City, Where Is My Past?" -- 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South -- 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing: -- 30 What's Civic about Aztlán? -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors