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This article examines how media representations construct a positive vision of “camptopias”: our term for alternative sleepaway camps for youth with culturally marginalized identities (disabilities, queer sexualities or genders, minority religions/ethnicities, etc.). Because camp experience is temporary and geographically rooted, most people will learn about the work of camptopias via media representations. Our multimodal textual analysis highlights how these representations use tropes aligned with utopia and revolution to convey these camps’ purpose and necessity. We identify key interpretive repertoires in documentaries, websites, and published testimonies about five camptopias in North America. We find these representations offer a cultural vision of camptopias as a world apart: a space where minority identity becomes a critical strength, tool for survival, and wellspring for future paradigm shifts. Our findings demonstrate how tropes of utopia and revolution operate through words, sounds, and images to communicate the value of camptopias and educate about or foster wider empathy for campers’ experiences.

The “camptopia” experience: utopia and revolution in media representations of alternative youth sleepaway camps