What if the Way we Respond to the Crisis is Part of the Crisis? With Bayo Akomolafe
Will a radically different world that works for everyone ever happen? Will we ever find lasting wellness, and thrive in community, as it seems we are meant to? In this interview, our conversation grapples with the promise of social change, the repetitive cycle of sameness that stifles novelty and keeps us perpetuating familiar paradigms and patterns of behaviour. We ask, along with Bayo and the organization he started, ‘what if the way we respond to crisis is part of the crisis?’ Bayo shares about practices across the world that are opening up new places of power, inviting us to rekindle our alliances with place, with people, and with promise. He speaks about The Emergence Network, where most of his work is housed - and what he is hoping to do and already doing at this moment to invite; a politics of surprise, a post-activism that listens to grief, to bodily becomings, to nonhuman voices.
