The way hopepunk is described in that article makes it sound like the non-fandom version of curtain!fic. Nothing wrong with it, even like it on occasion, but the word punk should not be put anywhere near it. (Not that Aja seems to know what she's trying to say...)

I love radical kindness and spiteful hope. I have a handful of authors where I'll read most anything they put out because these are recurrent themes in their writing.