The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound
or the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
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Oct 19, 2022 8:00am - 10:30am PDT
What can bodies do? While examining the increasingly popular and deepening centrality of trauma (and "trauma-informed" approaches), we revisit the body as the site of these imaginings and projects of presence/absence. A new ontology of 'wounds' comes into focus — one that questions the isolation of the individual.
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Oct 20, 2022 8:00am - 10:30am PDT
Have we given trauma language too much power? Bayo Akomolafe's concept of the Afrocene exposes a subterranean world of errant thoughts, flying organs, crossroad monsters, chimeric allies, nomadic gods, and lingering archetypes. Critically, the Afrocene invites something more than recovery; it invites transmutation. It thinks through palimpsests and rhizomes. The Afrocene suggests that wounds are doing more than just seeking closure.
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Oct 21, 2022 8:00am - 10:30am PDT
In this conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta and Vanessa Andreotti, we examine the way popular expectations of healing recentralize the 'individual' and reinforce the regime of the human subject. What are we missing when we frame healing in this way?
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Oct 22, 2022 8:00am - 10:30am PDT
How do we co-produce a politics of fugitive becomings that addresses the ways healing and trauma are performative reinforcements of the familiar? What cartography/ethnography is available to us? How do we take seriously Deleuze's invitation to "bring something incomprehensible into this world?" What examples can inform a transgressive politics of seditious wellbeing in times when healing is performatively linked with precarity?
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, 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, Bayo Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia). In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He has also been appointed Senior Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. He is the recipient of the New Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnocultural Psychotherapy Award by the African Mental Health Summit 2022. www.bayoakomolafe.net
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Yet it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.
She is the author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine and The Madonna Secret. She is also finishing a collection of essays about navigating an incurable genetic disease and early trauma through ecological storytelling.
You can subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com, and follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at www.sophiestrand.com.
Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti is an internationally celebrated Latinx educator and the new Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and the former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. Vanessa’s research problematizes approaches to education and global change that reproduce paternalistic forms of relationships; simplistic solutions to complex problems; and ethnocentric ideals of sustainability, equity, justice, and change. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity and one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective, which promotes the practice of depth/probiotic education.
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