Our six-step ACTION Method framework helps turn story discussions into community organizing:

  1. A — Analyze the System

    Identify power structures from the story that exist in your community.

  2. CCheck Your Position

    Honest self-assessment about your own role and typical responses.

  3. TTarget Real Change

    Move from general concern to specific, concrete actions you can take.

  4. IImplement & Iterate

    Start small, stay accountable, and adjust based on what you learn.

  5. OOrganize Together

    Amplify individual actions into collective power.

  6. NNurture the WorkBuild

    Sustainable practices that prevent burnout.

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Popular stories our community uses

  • The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin) - Explores systemic oppression through the lens of people with earthquake powers in a world that fears them.

    Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler) - A young woman builds community resilience in climate collapse America.

    The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) - Media manipulation, class warfare, and the mechanics of revolution.

    Kindred (Octavia Butler) - Time travel forces a modern Black woman to confront slavery's legacy.

    The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) - How quickly democracies can slide into fascism.

    Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) - Colonial violence and bodily autonomy wrapped in gothic horror.

  • Andor - The daily reality of living under fascism and choosing resistance.

    Reservation Dogs - Indigenous community resilience, healing, and decolonization.

    The Good Place - Moral philosophy and systemic inequality disguised as a comedy about the afterlife.

    Watchmen (HBO) - White supremacy, generational trauma, and the limits of justice.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once - Immigrant experience, family expectations, and infinite possibilities under capitalism.

    Sorry to Bother You - Labor organizing, code-switching, and selling your soul for success.

    Black Panther - Isolationism vs. intervention, and what we owe the global community.

    And many more . . .