When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe
In the age of the Anthropocene and entrenched politics of
whiteness, Bayo Akomolafe brings us face-to-face with our own
unresolved ancestry.
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In this narrated essay from our archive, Nigerian writer Bayo
Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward
“monstrosity”—that which upends the familiar, that which challenges
and resists the order of things—as a site to truly meet ourselves.
He presents race as emergent and dynamic, and identity as unwieldy,
deeply composite, and intertwined with the living world. As the
Anthropocene lays bare the interconnectedness and interdependence
of all life, and dispels boundaries between human and nonhuman,
Bayo invites us to disturb, rethink, and remake how we construct
identity and race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
megaphone.fm/adchoices
Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward
“monstrosity”—that which upends the familiar, that which challenges
and resists the order of things—as a site to truly meet ourselves.
He presents race as emergent and dynamic, and identity as unwieldy,
deeply composite, and intertwined with the living world. As the
Anthropocene lays bare the interconnectedness and interdependence
of all life, and dispels boundaries between human and nonhuman,
Bayo invites us to disturb, rethink, and remake how we construct
identity and race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
megaphone.fm/adchoices
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