Literary Ecowitches in the Symbiocene: Healing the Wounds of the Earth and its Peoples through Lunarpunk Posthuman Re-Story-ation Narratives

Abstract

This article explores the contemporary literary ecowitch as a transformative figure within ecofeminist, ecocritical, and posthumanist thought. Grounded in ecofeminist revisionism and ecospiritual animist movements, the ecowitch (Sotelo 2025) is portrayed as a symbol of ecological resistance and healing that challenges dominant androanthropocentric worldviews through multispecies collaboration. The article analyses two stories from the new Lunarpunk Anthology (Norton-Kertson 2023) –to highlight storytelling as a form of magical activism. These narratives demonstrate speculative fiction’s capacity to imagine symbiotic, posthuman possible futures. Ultimately, the literary ecowitch becomes a visionary force in the Symbiocene (Albrecht 2019), fostering ecological reparation and resisting systemic eco-social injustices.