The Edges in the Middle, IV: Báyò Akómoláfé and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Continuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation with scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Speaking on the theme "What if justice gets in the way?,” Báyò and Keeanga engage in a lively conversation that considers how our quest for justice shapes us and is simultaneously shaped by systems of power and control. Together, they ask: how can we move justice out of the existing political paradigm and move beyond a normative sense of justice and reform?

“The Edges in the Middle” is a series of conversations between Báyò Akómoláfé and thought companions like john a. powell, V, Naomi Klein, and more. These limited episodes have been adapted from Báyò’s work as the Global Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute. In this role, Báyò has been holding a series of public conversations on issues of justice and belonging for the Institute's Democracy & Belonging Forum, which connects and resources civic leaders in Europe and the US who are committed to bridging across difference to strengthen democracy and advance belonging in both regions and around the world. Báyò's conversations encourage us to rethink justice, hope, and belonging by sitting amidst the noise, not trying to cover it up with pleasant rhythms. To learn more about the Democracy & Belonging Forum, visit democracyandbelongingforum.org.

Music by Sitka Sun, generously provided by The Long Road Society Record Label. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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0:00.0	I don't believe that we can achieve anything or resembling human fulfillment within the structures of capitalism.
0:10.0	For the wild is honored to present the Edges in the Middle, a series of conversations between biocomalife
0:17.0	and thought companions like John A. Powell, V, Naomi Klein, and more.
0:22.0	These limited episodes have been adapted from Bio's work as the global senior fellow at UC Berkeley's
0:29.0	Othering and Belonging Institute.
0:31.0	In this role, Bio has been holding a series of public conversations on issues of justice and belonging
0:37.0	with the Institute's democracy and belonging forum, which connects and resources civic leaders in Europe and the US
0:45.0	who are committed to bridging across differences to strengthen democracy and advance belonging in both regions and around the world.
0:53.0	Bio's conversations encourage us to rethink justice, hope, and belonging by sitting amidst the noise, not trying to cover it up with pleasant rhythms.
1:02.0	To learn more about the democracy and belonging forum, visit democracyandbelongingforum.org.
1:09.0	This recording features Bio's conversation with scholar, author, and activist, Kyenga Yamata Taylor.
1:16.0	Kyenga is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University in a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
1:24.0	She is a thought leader on black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.
1:30.0	Informed by bio-Komolafi's essay, Black Lives Matter, but to whom?
1:35.0	Kyenga and Bio explore a set of questions stemming from the provocation. What if justice gets in the way?
1:44.0	I want to say a few things again as I'm now traditionally known to about what this is.
1:53.0	This is an experiment in conversation. This is an experiment in the embody, which is the evil.
2:06.0	The evil people are from Eastern Nigeria. There are noble people, powerful people, beautiful stories, and wonderful cosmologies.
2:15.0	Part of that cosmology is this art form, which we have tried to articulate these conversations around.
2:24.0	The idea of the ombari isn't to arrive summarily at a notion of truth.
2:31.0	We're not looking for truth here. As important as that designation is, we're not looking for a way to arrive at consensus or agreement
2:44.0	as useful as those art strategically as well. The idea here is to listen with each other, to listen diffractively,
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