Bohío Humanista

The Bohío Humanista are Humanist "third place" venues in Boriquén, overseen by the Regional Sector Party of the Federal Humanist Party and enabled by discretionary grants provided by the FHP Central Secretariat, as well as by contributions organised through Humanist Vanguard and local affiliated chambers of guilds and corporations fundraising efforts.

Initially begun as grassroot operations, in common with the wider phenomenon of the bohío, these began to receive increased levels of organisational support and funding during 1750 AN as a part of a surge to demonstrate Humanist community building efficacy in action.

The first institution of this type, I found in a very ordinary and commonplace kind of courtyard. The queue for the soup kitchen, frequented by all manner of gaunt and scraggly indigent fellows, first caught my eye – some manner of native fowl had been plucked, butchered, and cast into a brimming wrought iron pot with a heap of vegetables and vivid looking peppers following the carcass into the slopping mess. The contents, which I examined once doled out to those waiting in line, perhaps smelt nicer than it looked. Pacing around the courtyard, which seemed to have the consistency of rammed ochre-coloured earth, I eventually chanced upon a shady corner where, under the cover of a corrugated iron lean-to, a kind of lending library had been laid out on what for all the world resembled commandeered craft tables. Turning over the works thus laid out, I discovered an eclectic mix of well-thumbed pulp novels as well as a variety of fresh, indeed, pristine pamphlets on all the various subjects that routinely exercise the Humanist mind. I might suggest, were I being entirely truthful, that I felt slightly underwhelmed by the scene that I had beheld, but all great enterprises have humble beginnings – or at least one must suppose.