MY STORY
Chris Christou is a cultural ecologist, storyteller, and writer. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, he moved to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2015 after a decade of delirious wanderlust. In 2016, Chris began concurrently working in and writing about the tourism industry, founding Oaxaca Profundo, a deep learning organization focused on deep learning, food culture and radical hospitality.
Throughout his time travelling as a tourist and later living in a tourist town, the patterns began to unveil themselves. The exile that tourism produces became unavoidable. As a result, in 2021, alongside friends and strangers, he organized and launched the End of Tourism Podcast as a way to amplify the voices in the neighbourhood fighting for land, lineage, and liberty.
A graduate scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School and the Universidad de la Tierra, he writes about the crucible of (sub)culture, from food to psychedelics, travel and exile, and is the author of a forthcoming manuscript on the unauthorized history of tourism.
Chris has been published twice in the Dark Mountain Project, as well as in Modern Farmer, Gods & Radicals, Alba Sud, Liminal Journal and the Journal of Wild Culture. He is the author of a self-published book of poetry entitled the Black Braid of Memory, as well as forthcoming books on the psychedelic culture and the unauthorized history of tourism. Finally, he is a student of all things chocolate and cacao-related.