The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound, with Sophie Strand

An excerpt from the four-day webinar, The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound with Báyò Akómoláfé and Sophie Strand exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End.

This was a  live online conversation facilitated by Science and Nonduality founders, Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She is the author of the book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine (Inner Traditions, 2022) and The Madonna Secret (Inner Traditions, 2023), an eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining the gospels. Subscribe for her newsletter at: sophiestrand.substack.com and follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at www.sophiestrand.com.

Báyò Akómoláfé is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo Akomolafe is the Visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. Learn more on Báyò’s website: www.bayoakomolafe.net.

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