Who we are
FictionToAction is a free online community that uses storytelling as the entry point for organizing, with toolkits to turn fiction into local, sustainable action.
Why fiction?
FictionToAction started with a simple question: if stories are how so many of us make sense of the world, why can’t they also be how we change it?
Storytelling is how humans first learn to recognize and share injustice, how we first start rooting for the underdog, and how we imagine real collective resistance to problems that seem insurmountable.
FictionToAction takes this a step further — meeting community members where they already are in book clubs, watch parties, community groups — to help them see organizing lessons and strategies hiding in plain sight. Because if we all understood Star Wars, then we already know how to recognize corrupt power and build genuine resistance. Sure, we may not be living in the Galactic Empire — although, honestly — but we can still 100% use these lessons.
How it works
Traditional organizing asks you to knock on strangers’ doors. We take a different approach.
FictionToAction uses ‘relational organizing’, a grassroots strategy to leverage your personal networks — friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors — to drive social or political change.
We use your group chat. Your neighborhood party. Your book club. Because the people who already know and trust you are the people most likely to actually hear you and be open to working for collective community change.
What you get
FictionToAction has already done the less exciting structural part of the work — building frameworks, worksheets, and discussion guides — so you can just waltz on up, connect the dots, and turn any story into an organizing conversation.
All you need is a living room, a kick-ass story, and people you care about.
The process:
Watch or read fiction
Analyze it with our frameworks and tools
Take those lessons back to your own community to plant seeds for cultural change
And then keep going!
Join us
To keep the ideas flowing, we release regular essays and analysis of popular fiction on our free Substack. With more than 14,000 subscribers, it’s where inspiration lives — then our frameworks and tools help you put that inspiration to work.
So get reading, get watching, get analyzing, and let’s make our communities unfuckwithable.
