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If you visit the website of Nigerian-born writer, philosopher, trickster, and culture disruptor, bio-okomalafe, the first thing that greets you is this impressive piece of prose. Welcome, Traveler, it says.

I am quite confident that even as the oceans boil and the hurricanes beat violently against our once safe shores

and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom

and our fists protest the denial of climate justice,

that there is a path to take that has

nothing to do with victory or defeat. The place we do not yet know the coordinates to, a question

we do not yet know how to ask. The point of the departed arrow is not merely to pierce the bull's

and carry the trophy. The point of the arrow is to sing merely to pierce the bull's-eye and carry the trophy.

The point of the arrow is to sing the wind and remake the world in the brevity of flight.

There are things we must do, sayings we must say, thoughts we must think, that look nothing

like the images of success that have so thoroughly possessed

our visions of justice. May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange path,

of the third way, of the broken binary, of the traversal disruption, the chirodic moment,

the post-human movement for emancipation, the gift of disorientation

that opened up new places of power and of slow limbs. And this piece summarizes well why I've

wanted to speak with bio for quite a long time, especially the part of it where he says that there are

things that we must do that look

nothing like the images of success that have so thoroughly possessed our visions of justice.

For as discourse gets increasingly predictable and increasingly polarized, I find bio to be a voice

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