Afro-Now-Ism

While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.

As a species and as a society we’ve successfully cultivated our capacity for certainty and control, for separation and subjugation. Now, for our own sanity and the planet’s survival, we need to cultivate our capacity for uncertainty, for openness, for connection to each other and all that unites us. We need to reclaim our inherent creativity as the

We are anthropos, and we have no other means of addressing these worlds than through our own. But if we can consciously bear in mind the fact of our difference, if we can recognize our own limited perspective while not enforcing it upon others, these things need not be a barrier to accessing and acting on the basis of shared interests and intention

This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.