As Optimistic Anthropology heads into its second year, we’re trying something new. We'll be curating #GoodReads & #GoodListens from the previous month, but doing it in the pithiest way possible (by rounding up the things that we felt compelled to tweet).  Some of these recommendations are about building knowledge, process and cultures for social change, others are examples of anthropology in action, explorations of cultures and how it developed, and still others are fascinating things from the adjacent possible, in order to encourage the potential and serendipity created when you notice and connect the unlikely. Check out our first 9!

At the end of June, Optimistic Anthropology joined "a national movement to advance racial equity by dismantling structural racism, city by city, town by town." We wanted to share a little bit about why we have committed to Racial Equity Here.

There remains a pervasive belief that people and organizations know how to engage in cross-sector collaborations.  And earlier this year, I worked on a project that provided further measurable evidence that this pervasive belief is wrong.