This text explores the processes of formation of two Nahua writers' collectives from the Sierra de Zongolica who, through language and literary creation, seek to build community and utopian projects. In the midst of an environment of high marginalization, discrimination and persistent struggle, these writers have generated practices and forms of collective organization that, from historical and social circumstances almost always adverse, seek to create projects for the future and social transformation. Through oral history and ethnography, the article analyzes their trajectories and asks how they construct utopias and futures. The article focuses on the creative practices of these two collectives by framing them within the debate on the processes of community building and utopian projects of the future.

Dfter the genocide of the 1980s and the peace process in Guatemala, a process of territorial dispossession was launched linked to the activity of extractive industries and megaprojects. The response was a mobilization of the affected communities that became the axis of the indigenous and anti-neoliberal organization in the country, to which the State has responded with the delegitimization, repression and criminalization of leading activists and community authorities. In this context, a group of activists invited me to participate in a political project to support these communities through analysis, dissemination and reflection. The same context forced the project to end up becoming an alternative communication initiative - Community Press - and actions against criminalization. In this text I reflect on my experience in this space and this process, as a case of political use of the profession of social researcher. I dwell on the challenges and possibilities that the processes in which the social sciences are transformed into tools for communicative and legal action pose, and I show the tensions that were present.