00:02:58.700He is the best-selling author of My Grandmother's Hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, and was described by on-being's Krista Tippett, quote, activates the wisdom of ancestors in a very new science about how all of us carry the history and traumas behind everything we collapse into the word race in our bodies.
00:03:20.840bio komalafe is the chief curator of the emergence network a speaker author fugitive
00:03:30.300neo-materialist compost activist public intellectual and yoruba poet but when he
00:03:37.560takes himself less seriously he is a father of aletheia and kaya and the grateful life partner
00:03:44.060of EJ, as well as the sworn washer of nightly archives of dishes. The conveyor of the concepts
00:03:52.340of post-activism, transraciality, and onto fugitivity, Bio is a widely celebrated international
00:03:59.480speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond
00:04:06.040Our Fences, Letter to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home, and We Will Tell Our Own
00:04:11.300Stories, The Lions of Africa Speak. He is also the Executive Director and Chief Curator for
00:04:16.540the Emergence Network and hosts the online post-activist course, We Will Dance with Mountains.
00:04:25.760Victoria Santos' work is rooted in a far-reaching vision of human potential.
00:04:31.880She has a deep commitment to our collective liberation. Her work emphasizes intersectional
00:04:37.000awareness, individual and collective healing, and compassionate action. She is the founder
00:04:43.060and director of the Center for Healing and Liberation, an organization focused on healing,
00:04:48.280wellness, and racial justice practices. Additionally, as founder and co-executive
00:04:53.540director of BIPOC-ED Coalition, Victoria is part of a cultural change movement that prioritizes
00:05:00.680health and wellness. Victoria advocates for more resources to flow towards BIPOC-led
00:05:06.000nonprofits, and calls in philanthropic partners and other allies to reimagine their roles and
00:05:11.280commitment to working with BIPOC-led organizations in more powerful ways. She is the co-creator of
00:05:17.620the BIPOC ED sabbatical program and the Respite and Restoration program in Washington state.
00:05:25.060Victoria knows the power of community and the wisdom that can emerge from it.
00:05:29.360Her work is guided by the deep knowing that everyone is needed and that when we offer each
00:05:34.420other, our compassionate listening, we cultivate our collective freedom. Victoria is a Spanish
00:05:40.420fluent, Afro-Latina immigrant born in the Dominican Republic, living on land of the
00:05:46.440Snohomish people, although somewhat nomadic as of late.
00:05:51.180Omon Blanks is a creative director, festival curator, producer, and programmer. He has
00:05:56.500a 15-year career in music, film, and as an indie label and record producer. He is the
00:06:01.880founder and creative director of TAC, the Art Concept Organization, a documentation and archive
00:06:09.160focused platform interested in studying African and Black societies from community, city, and
00:06:15.260country perspectives. This is where he researches documents towards the building of an archive.
00:06:22.240We hope you enjoy this look into the pressing questions of our times as discussed by these
00:07:31.220My name is Victoria Santos, and I hail from the Dominican Republic, and it feels really wonderful to be here in Accra, and my body recognizes this soil.
00:33:05.780Like when we're talking about like the sloshing of us as people, right?0.96
00:33:09.700When we talk about the gurgling, I said this earlier, the gurgling of creation, which is0.77
00:33:16.080blackness it is that we are a representation of that and what we have to begin to do and0.99
00:33:22.900brother orler talked about this yesterday we have to begin to strip away all the things that people
00:33:28.900have put on blackness and put on these things and begin to like not return as in we were once kings
00:33:37.760and queens or black excellence and you know i can't say that word but but you know what i mean
00:33:43.360Like, you know, the talented 10th and all of that stuff, you know, and I'm not knocking my ancestors or people saying it.
00:33:51.480I'm just simply saying there has to be something more mooring and anchoring than that, that I know myself to be connected to creation differently than just the pigmentation pieces.
00:34:07.220I'm not saying the pigmentation pieces aren't important.
00:34:09.860I'm saying that the pigmentation pieces have to be moored in the architecture0.95
00:41:56.320We need those roles have to be activated in a way that says that particular ritual, there needs to be something else that needs to, that ritual is now creating the decay by which the other system can now come up through.
00:42:17.460The decay of that particular ritual literally creates the nutrients for the new ritual to come about.
00:42:23.860But if you don't have people that don't need permission, you need the fugitive, you need the trickster, you need the seers, you need people to say, you should be playing, you should be playing, you should be playing, because in the playing, that peace will begin to emerge forth.
00:42:44.160In the not playing, in the not playing, you do a disservice, not only to yourself, because your purpose is not emerging, but you do a disservice to creation itself.