Elder as Threshold
Growing Elder by Oceana Sawyer
Episode notes
In this episode we depart from elder as a physical being and look at the energy of elder can do in a world that is collapsing.
BIO
Bayo Akomolafe is the descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated 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 queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.
The convener of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’, D ...
Keywords
elder, eldership