Create a Pluriverse Data Journal Entry

by Danielle Gauthier

1. Answer the "Pluriverse Data Journal Problems" for moving forward in the boxes below.

(If you are grieving, please don't think I mean forgetting anyone. I mean remembering.)

2. Find out how common your answers are and why.
  • race
  • gender
  • education
  • occupation
  • wealth
  • ability/health
  • geography


    • a. How are you an outlier? What is your experience attached to this?
    b. How are you average? Is it a structural flaw? Is it an anthropological reflection of your culture?
    c. What do your people need? Who do you relate to the most and how can you be supported better by us?
    For help with part 2c, imaging the future, answer the "design" questions. This will determine the formatting of your Pluriverse Data Journal Entry.

    3. Hit Enter and you will get results.
    Pluriverse Data Journal Problems Prompts
    Why have you forgotten your self? There is no reason to completely submit to your environment in a way that silences your creativity. Describe an experience, image, feeling, or fear associated with your struggle to express yourself.
    What is missing for your return? I'm sure you have come across obstacles. What were they? Where did they come from?
    What of yourself do you want to witness? This is like a prayer or intention. How do your ethics and actions align? What karma do you want to correct?
    What needs to be held? Think of what is precious or serves as a symbol for you right now.
    How are you changing? What is new in your expression?
    What carries and lifts you? What support can you identify in your life, whether you have access or not?
    What can you erase of this state? What does your impact reach?
    Why do you want to forget your body? Get graphic about what the world did to you. Find that you are a poet. Be dramatic.
    How are you already in achievement? Take a moment to give your self credit for your wisdom in how you carry the burden of your emotions.
    race Identify a statistic that connects your experience to your race.
    gender Identify a statistic that connects your experience to your gender.
    education Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people with your level of education.
    occupation Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people with your job or background.
    wealth Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people with your socio-economic status.
    ability Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people with your ability.
    health Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people with your health conditions.
    geography Identify a statistic that connects your experience to people in your area.
    How are you an outlier? This will help us understand how you are under represented.
    How are you average? What are common aspects of your identity?
    How can you exemplify an energy descent to embody futurization? Prosperity, spirituality, furgality.
    What place is your center? What is local to you and/or supports your autonomy? Name qualities and not a nation-state because they are explicitly exclustionary to be based on borders.
    What policy do you critique? Identify the bleed or lack of protection.
    What extraction needs to be restored? We live in a culture of depletion. What do you need to preserve?
    How are you ready to embrace transformation? What aspects of change are you open to and hoping for?
    What is your creation you want to sustain? What practice is meaningful to you that you want to center and ritualize?
    How do you cooperate with others? Think of what you appreciate about diversity. Think of your obstacles.
    Are you taking a bottom-up or horizontal approach? A bottom-up approach would consider people excluded from the design stage as integral to the design. A horizontal approach doesn't exclude people from the design process.
    What are the consequences of the change you demand? Depict what is special about the future you want to attract.

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