Spark Series: Bayo Akomolafe
Exploring where it hurts (and why) -- this Wednesday at 12:30pm EST
Welcome, Traveller.
I am quite confident that even as the oceans boil, and the hurricanes beat violently against our once safe shores, and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists protest the denial of climate justice, that there is a path to take that has nothing to do with victory or defeat: a place we do not yet know the coordinates to; a question we do not yet know how to ask. The point of the departed arrow is not merely to pierce the bullseye and carry the trophy: the point of the arrow is to sing the wind and remake the world in the brevity of flight.
Thus begins Bayo Akomolafe’s invitation to us all — a portal into an imagined future in which we discover “words we don't know yet, and temporalities we have not yet inhabited.”
Bayo is an author, speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer-trickster) whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with. And tomorrow — Wednesday, April 20th, at 12:30pm EST (note the earlier start time), via this link — I’ll host a special Spark Series in which Bayo joins us from his home in Chennai, India, to explore the discovery of, as he puts it, “a form of worship that has not yet been invented.”
Come wander with us, so that together we might find a way to #changethestory . . .
He is fabulous! Thanks for connecting Sam. I much want to be in this session. But partner is having surgery same time. Hope to listen in later. Oh. I hate to miss this one.