Climate Consciousness Summit

In partnership with

In partnership with

Bayo Akomolafe
Posthumanist Thinker | Poet | Teacher | Self-Styled ‘Trans-Public’ Intellectual | Essayist
Engaging with Troubled Realities – Allowing Loss & Grief to Weave us Together

Highlights from this session:

Bayo Akomolafe talks about the nature of the crisis we are in and that it is one of dissociation and often amplified by the way we respond to it. He introduces us to his concept of post-activism and the need for poetic interruption and archetypes like the Trickster to break patterns, boundaries and binaries and allow grief and loss to travel.

“The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way. It is following the invitation to listen deeply, to be keen, to be fresh, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.”

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Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. He is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, self-styled ‘trans-public’ intellectual, essayist, and currently the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (August 2025). 

Bayo is the host teacher at Dancing with Mountains, an educational consultation and the visionary founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide networking project and inquiry at the edges of the Anthropocene.

Agamemnon Otero
Agamemnon Otero
Alex Evans
Alex Evans
Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe
Britt Wray
Britt Wray
Cynthia Achieng
Cynthia Achieng
Dallas Gudgell
Dallas Gudgell
Elise Buckle
Elise Buckle
Elizabeth Wathuti
Elizabeth Wathuti
Eve Driver
Eve Driver
Francis Weller
Francis Weller
Hāweatea Holly Bryson
Hāweatea Holly Bryson
Hazel Healy
Hazel Healy
Jaden Ramsey
Jaden Ramsey
Jewel Ndung’u Karungari
Jewel Ndung’u Karungari
Khulan Berger
Khulan Berger
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert
Lyla June Johnston
Lyla June Johnston
Maria Clara Parente
Maria Clara Parente
Markus Hirzig
Markus Hirzig
Martin Bruders
Martin Bruders
Matthew Green
Matthew Green
Natalie Bullut
Natalie Bullut
Nico Forest Heinimann
Nico Forest Heinimann
Nora Bateson
Nora Bateson
Pamela Kryskow
Pamela Kryskow
Pat McCabe
Pat McCabe
Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets
Rasada Goldblatt
Rasada Goldblatt
Rich Wilson
Rich Wilson
Shayla Wright
Shayla Wright
Sonita Mbah
Sonita Mbah
Stacy Roberts Navibia
Stacy Roberts Navibia
Steffi Bednarek
Steffi Bednarek
Susanne Ahlendorf
Susanne Ahlendorf
Teodora Rădulescu
Teodora Rădulescu
Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl
TJ Jordan
TJ Jordan
Tom Osborn
Tom Osborn
Wanjîkū J. Kîarîe
Wanjîkū J. Kîarîe