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"Down By the Riverside" Town Hall ft. Bayo Akomolafe & Friends

This Town Hall is inspired by a cosmo-vision of power; one not reducible to human agency, electoral politics, techno-bureaucratic resolutions, or activist victories.  Held in Great Barrington MA on August 7, 2024. As 2024 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the Schumacher Center, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe convenes a gathering led by nine stellar scholar-activists, weaving together perspectives from decolonial, post-humanist, Black studies and other fields of inquiry. Orland Bishop, Resmaa Menakem, Victoria Santos, Erin Manning, Saidya Hartman, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Nora Bateson, Tiokasun Ghosthorse, and Sara King join Bayo in conversation. This confluence merges in Du Bois’ historic home town of Great Barrington (W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that he was “born by a golden river,” referring to the Housatonic River that runs through the Berkshires.) Together, this group joins in a process of embodied inquiry: invoking a sense of the political, of an otherwise, of the non-legible. This Town Hall is a walking-by-the-edges, a drifting-along-the-sides, a collective marking of the impoverishment of justice, a shared acknowledgement of the failures of modernity, and a seeking after a milieu beyond critique and contestation, to creation and experimentation.