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Participant-Observer Reflections of an Activist Anthropologist on…

◊ Activist life & culture in the belly of the beast.

◊ Fiction Featuring Activists — Views and Reviews.

 

Read my essays, articles and reviews here on the Activist Explorer Blog, and in my Activist Explorer Newsletter

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Understanding Activists

Understanding Activists

Writings about activist culture, the activist experience, and fostering greater understanding of activists and activism.

Life in the Liberated Zone

Life in the Liberation zone

Life in the Liberated Zone

Life in the spaces we carve out in the midst of movements, creating and living the new world now.

Rainwood House Movement Mystery Series

Updates on our prep, publishing and promotion path.

Stories of Our People-SOOP

Fiction Featuring Activists

Fiction Featuring Activists

Reflections on full and fair representation of activists in fiction, reviews, stereotype busting, calls for activist writers to participate in sharing and creating more fiction--in all genres--depicting the full range of activist reality.

Everyday Activist Life

Everyday Activist Life

What is daily life like for activists living in the belly of the Beast we struggle to transform?
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JB's POA--Participant-Observer Adventures

My experiences navigating the waters and riding the ebb and flow of activist work on the high seas of struggle and the inlets and bogs of daily activist life, in the company of my alter ego JB and other trusty comrades.

Understanding is Protection

Understanding is Protection

The deeper our understanding of ourselves, our culture, and our specific reality and risks, the more effective we can be, and the better we can face our challenges.

Activist Emotional Landscape

Activist Emotional Landscape

Emotional ups, downs and sideways of being an activist

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Activist Learning - Learning Activism

Articles, fiction, conversations, projects and programs around learning to be an active, equal, vocal participant in society, and the struggle against passivity in the belly of the Beast.

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◊  Novels-in-Progress   

◊  JB’s Journal, essays and posts

◊  Activist Explorer Newsletter

◊  Articles, Interviews

◊ The Fiction Featuring Activists List

◊ Review fiction (novels, movies, TV, etc.) portraying activists and social movements

◊ Nominate fiction for the FFA Awards: Best of FFA and Most In Need of Improvement

◊   Activist Writer Workshops

◊   Activist Fiction Writers Collective

◊   Activist Culture Salon

◊   Activist Mutual Support