An explorer keeps a journal for sights, findings, and reflections. So does an anthropologist.

I studied anthropology in Mexico at the the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. There, I learned read much of what anthropology students read in the States and Europe, classical and modern, but we also read another perspective, what I am an anthropologistAs an anti-colonial anthropologist and a participantof anti-colonial persuasion participant-observer anthropologist of–which is what I orginally studied. An

I’m Juliana, Activist Explorer. We activists work to mobilize people power to transform society into a place of justice, compassion, true democracy, and equal rights for all. 

What’s not to like about that?

And yet, interests that control society and profit from injustice suppress our work…and our stories. Here in the belly of the beast we rarely get to hear activists share experiences and ideas in their own voices, or see stories depicting activist life and social movements. When activists do appear, it’s often a negative, stereotyped portrayal. 

Most of us harbor a seed of activism within ourselves. Movies, novels, TV shows, even narrative games, that portray engaging, authentic activist characters living life, challenging injustice, and making change together can inspire us to identify with them, see how movement organizing happens, and imagine ourselves joining in.

Join my quest to collect, create, cultivate, and connect activist stories!