SLOW STUDY: We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!
Illustration by Jon Marro for Bayo Akomolafe.
We’re taking a pause this week from our regular episodes to share a special snippet from our first Slow Study with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. This offering originates from Bayo’s course Slow Study: We Will Dance With Mountains: Into The Cracks! and is an edited curation of recorded lectures, prayers, musical accompaniments, and practice prompts offered by Bayo and co-conspirators.
This week’s preview includes a brief portion from Session One, as well as the corresponding practice prompt by Jiordi Rosales. Each session within the course includes a practice prompt for deeper exploration.
To learn more about what the course entails, contributors, and cost, visit the course page.
Happy listening.
“Justice may give us a seat at the table, but it will never allow us to leave the house to play in the playground and what we need right now is something beyond the house. Something outside of this place, something beyond this place of power. We need something subalter.”
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HOST / LEAD TEACHER
Bayo Akomolafe
GUEST TEACHERS
adrienne maree brown
Geci Karuri-Sebina
Joanna Macy
Makshya Tolbert
Vanessa Andreotti
ARTISTS
Ganavya
Ilu Oba
Penelope Baquero
CURATOR / PRODUCER
Jiordi Rosales
EDITOR
Evan Tenenbaum
ILLUSTRATORS
Jia Sung
Jon Marro
DESIGN / PUBLISHING
For The Wild
♫ Musical accompaniment Rajna Swaminathan.
Photo of Bayo Akomolafe
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor, and poet. He is a teacher and public intellectual renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change.
Bayo dreams of composing a “weird politics”, a postnationalist emancipatory network of making sanctuary as inquiry, a village of technologies for fugitives.
In 2014, Dr. Akomolafe was invited to be the Special Envoy of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Ancient Futures (USA). He left his lecturing position in Covenant University, Nigeria to help build this Alliance. Bayo has been Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, where he taught on his own formulated concepts of ‘transraciality’ and postactivism. He has also taught at Sonoma State University (CA, USA), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), and Schumacher College (Totnes, England) – among other universities around the world. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and the University of Vermont, as an adjunct and associate professor, respectively. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (SAND).
Now living between India and the United States, Bayo is a father of Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi. He is married to EJ, his dear life-partner of Indian descent.
The convener of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’, Bayo is a widely celebrated international speaker an award-winning public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. He is also the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network. He is writing his third book about the spirituality and emancipatory lessons of the transatlantic slave journeys, called The Times are Urgent, Let us Slow Down.
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Ayana and Báyò dance together through questions of crisis, identity, and rupture. As we attempt to break from the monoculture that cements us as citizen subjects of empire, Báyò suggests that we need an ontological mutiny.