This is a Writing Revolution.
This is a Writing Revolution.
Abre Tu Boca is a social practice project that returns the power of the voice to the people. It asserts: writing is not just for “writers,” because the word is alive inside every one of us.
The work of Abre Tu Boca is to remove many of the typical blocks in verbal expression to directly access language where it lives: inside the body, as the inner voice. It untangles what has kept the voice small, unsure, or distorted, and it opens the channel so it can speak again.
So in Abre Tu Boca, you are not taught writing. You are dropped in.
The prompt activates the inner voice.
And with pen and paper, you simply catch it on the page.
Then, we zoom out.
We move from the subconscious to the conscious mind — not to fix the writing, but to listen to it.
To understand what it’s saying and to dial it in.
In this process, we also learn how the inner voice moves — what languages it speaks in, what symbols it uses to communicate.
This is the Abre Tu Boca Method — a pedagogy developed by artist and writer Amanda Aileen Fisher — that trains perception through writing
perception of oneself,
perception of others,
perception of what is speaking beneath the words.
As we learn to listen to ourselves, we learn to listen to each other.
And something extraordinary happens:
a collective voice begins to form.
Abre Tu Boca is not just about writing or speaking your truth.
It is also about sitting in a room and witnessing someone else’s — without rush, judgment, interpretation, or solution — and letting it shift you.
When this happens across a community, week after week, something reorganizes.
Now imagine what will shift when this happens across the world.
This is why we say:
Abre Tu Boca is a revolution.
Not metaphorically.
In fact.
How It All Started
Abre Tu Boca was started by writer and artist Amanda Aileen Fisher in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, out of an arts residency during the summer of 2022. It began with a writing circle, zine lab, and an open stage event called “Abre Tu Boca.” The project grew quickly and within two months had been invited to work with a nonprofit in Medellin, Colombia.
Since then, Abre Tu Boca has:
Led writing circles in Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Austria, Germany, and online
Hosted a writing circle spoken across four languages (Leipzig, Germany)
Trained facilitators to carry the work forward
Launched bilingual and all-Spanish writing circles.
Toured internationally as a social practice project
Been invited to present its methodology at Modern Elder Academy as part of their Summer Immersion program (Summer 2025)
Guided writing circles in Todos Santos’ Palapa School, supporting youth in finding and flexing their voice.
And now, the project enters its first Global Season
through the launch of Abre Tu Boca Press —
a publishing channel for the collective voice.
And in early 2026, Abre Tu Boca will open the pilot of its Facilitation Training Program — formalizing the method and preparing new facilitators to bring this work to their own communities around the world.
This project is sustained by community support.
Thank you for helping keep the mouth open.
Founder
Amanda Aileen Fisher
Writer & Interdisciplinary Social Practice Artist
Amanda Aileen Fisher is an interdisciplinary social practice artist and writer working with language as a tool of perception, identity formation, and reality-shaping. Her work asks: What happens when we learn to speak from the inner voice, rather than from the inherited one?
She developed the Abre Tu Boca Method, a pedagogy that uses writing as a vehicle to train perception —
perception of oneself,
perception of others,
and perception of what is speaking beneath the words.
Her practice blends writing, voice, somatic attention, and relational encounter, creating immersive and participatory experiences that shift how people hear themselves and each other.
Before Abre Tu Boca, she:
Co-directed Colectivo El Nido, a community arts and cultural space in Todos Santos.
Founded Crown Town Handmade, a collective of entrepreneurial artists in North Carolina.
Directed The Aristocrates, an artist residence in Los Angeles.
Founded and directed EDIA Maps, Inc., a publishing company that explored regional identity through narrative cartography and collective voice.
Her social practice and white box gallery projects have been shared and shown in Los Angeles, Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Austria, and Germany.
See more at: amandaaileenfisher.com
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Abre Tu Boca is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3). All donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.*
Your contribution fuels:
facilitator training
multilingual programming
public school access
scholarships
and the continued opening of the collective voice.
*Amanda Aileen Fisher is a sponsored artist of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Amanda Aileen Fisher’s Participatory Art, Writing, Perception-Based Practice must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.