Chris Christou
Chris Christou is a cultural ecologist, storyteller, and writer. He hosts the End of Tourism Podcast, a space for conversations with authors and activists on the themes of wanderlust, exile, and radical hospitality. In southern Mexico, Chris runs Oaxaca Profundo, a project that offers intercultural teachings and exchanges. A graduate scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School and the Universidad de la Tierra, his writing has been published in the Dark Mountain Project, Modern Farmer, Gods & Radicals, Liminal Journal and the Journal of Wild Culture. You can find and follow his work at chrischristou.substack.com and chrischristou.net.
Flesh and Blood | On the Sacraments of Survival
Journal Article
Today, it is often only the presence of sustenance that gets acknowledged. The absence of such things is almost exclusively spoken of as poverty. But what if this contemporary poverty arises not from sustenance’s presence, but from having forgotten what is absent in that recognition?