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In this narrated essay from our archive, Nigerian writer Bayo Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward “monstrosity”—that which upends the familiar, that which challenges and resists the order of things—as a site to truly meet ourselves. He presents race as emergent and dynamic, and identity as unwieldy, deeply composite, and intertwined with the living world. As the Anthropocene lays bare the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life, and dispels boundaries between human and nonhuman, Bayo invites us to disturb, rethink, and remake how we construct identity and race.
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In this narrated essay from our archive, Nigerian writer Bayo Akomolafe deconstructs old stories of colorism and puts forward “monstrosity”—that which upends the familiar, that which challenges and resists the order of things—as a site to truly meet ourselves. He presents race as emergent and dynamic, and identity as unwieldy, deeply composite, and intertwined with the living world. As the Anthropocene lays bare the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life, and dispels boundaries between human and nonhuman, Bayo invites us to disturb, rethink, and remake how we construct identity and race.
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