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Behrouz Boochani and Abdul Samad Haidari speak about their journeys as refugees, the systems which demonize asylum seekers as criminals, Manus Prison Theory and structural oppression, and the role of art, literature and storytelling in resistance an healing. Guest Profiles:Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer, film producer and research fellow at Canterbury University. He, along with Omid Tofighian, developed the Manus Prison Theory which is a framework to understand offshore detention facilities and how this system functions as a form of systemic violence and oppression against asylum seekers. Behrouz himself was detained at Manus Island for two years after its official closure in 2019 and his memoir, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppressionAbdul Samad Haidari is journalist, poet and refugee advocate. From the Hazara community in Afghanistan, he was forced to flee Afghanistan on multiple occasions having spent his childhood as a refugee in Pakistan and Iran before returning. His journalism had a particular focus on women and children's rights, terrorist group actions, transparency and accountability in government, and the systematic persecution of minority groups in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.  He spent 9 years in a refugee camp in Indonesia before making in to New Zealand. The podcast title "I am but more than a refugee" is an homage to one of the poems in his recent book. "The Unsent Condolences" https://abdulsamadhaidari.wixsite.com/site/booksSupport the showSupport us and reach out!https://smoothbrainsociety.comhttps://www.patreon.com/SmoothBrainSocietyInstagram: @thesmoothbrainsocietyTikTok: @thesmoothbrainsocietyTwitter/X: @SmoothBrainSocFacebook: @thesmoothbrainsocietyMerch and all other links: Linktreeemail: thesmoothbrainsociety@gmail.com

Exciting launch! Our very first Book Club show with Today Radio's Vanessa Phelan and Sarah Tapp. Every month we'll share recommendations and take on a new book, as voted by our readers. It all started with Sarah chatting about the wonderful interview she did with Dr. Susan Rogers on her tome about music cognition and cyberaustics: "This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You" And then the conversation took a book curve into what we're reading, what we've enjoyed over the past few months, and we thought it would be great to build a community around our love of books and reading. So here we are! We would love you to help build this community with ideas and recommendations. Each month we will try to bring recommendations and also include YOUR recommendations. You will have no doubt heard both of my colleagues on Today Radio as Sarah Tapp hosts The Hangover and Vanessa Phelan is a newsreader and contributing journalist for RTL Today. Here's a bit more about us... Well me you know about I guess as you're listening to the show. What's relevant and something I don't normally talk about is that I write and consult on children's science books for DK in the UK. You can find my books here. I love giving back to the science I once studied and with books, this is one avenue. I wrote the Mini Scientist series when my girls were tiny as I realised experimenting is our first language. Before words. Vanessa grew up in the States and moved to Luxembourg in 2017 after 12 years in Dublin. Aside from her work at RTL, Vanessa also works for a publisher of Irish language children's books. She is a lover of all kinds of fiction, whether mystery, romance, historical or just stories about people with messages and themes we can all relate to. She also loves to travel and so enjoys reading about far-flung and exotic places. Originally from Hawaii, Sarah studied Zen poetry in college and spent almost 15 years in Japan before relocating to Luxembourg in 2016. When she's not hosting The Hangover on Today Radio, Sarah is an avid reader who loves literary fiction, poetry, classics and memoir. Her unchecked obsession with One Direction fanfiction and inability to pronounce words correctly when reading aloud keep her from being an insufferable snob. Subscribe to the Podcast and get in touch! Please do subscribe to the podcast on Apple and / or Spotify. It would be great if you could rate and review too - helps others find us. Tune in on Today Radio Saturdays at 11am, Sundays at noon and Tuesdays at 10am. Vote on our next book We would really love you to vote on our next book! Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Milkman by Anna Burns Books mentioned on today's show We spoke about so many books on this show. Let us know what you think of them! This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry and other books by Fredrik Backman The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Olive Kitteridge and other books by Elizabeth Strout A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Fanfiction (we recommend Archive of Our Own (AO3)) Yellowface by R.F. Kuang The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris Beach Read by Emily Henry (Sarah said “Book Lovers” but this is the one she meant!) The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd Hamnet and other books by Maggie O'Farrell Prophet Song by Paul Lynch My Policeman by Bethan Roberts Windswept & Interesting by Billy Connolly Memoirs and biographies of Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Diana, Princess of Wales Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo Milkman by Anna Burns Books mentioned on today's show We spoke about so many books on this show. Let us know what you think of them! This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry and other books by Fredrik Backman The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Olive Kitteridge and other books by Elizabeth Strout A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Fanfiction (we recommend Archive of Our Own (AO3)) Yellowface by R.F. Kuang The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris Beach Read by Emily Henry (Sarah said “Book Lovers” but this is the one she meant!) The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd Hamnet and other books by Maggie O'Farrell Prophet Song by Paul Lynch My Policeman by Bethan Roberts Windswept & Interesting by Billy Connolly Memoirs and biographies of Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Diana, Princess of Wales Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo Milkman by Anna Burns

2014 Bayo Akomolafe was awarded for Global Excellence Award [Civil Society] by Future Shapers (California). He is the Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project) [www.emergencenetwork.org], and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence'. He hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise'…one that does not treat the crisis of our times as exterior to ‘us' or the ‘solutions' that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo has authored two books, We Will Tell Our Own Story! and These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home.bayoakomolafe.net/_____________________________________TICKETS LIVE - EASTFOREST.ORG/TOUR"CEREMONY TOUR"11.01 Boulder, CO*11.02 Salt Lake City, UT11.03 Boise, ID11.04 Vancouver, Can11.06 Seattle, WA11.08 Portland, OR11.10 Nevada City, CA*11.11 San Francisco, CA11.12 Santa Cruz, CA11.13 Los Angeles, CA11.15 Las Vegas, CA11.16 San Diego, CA11.17 Phoenix, AZ11.19 Santa Fe, AZ11.20 Austin, TX*Seated Venue-Performancesign up for the mailing list at eastforest.org to stay in the loop on early tickets.+ JOURNEY SPACE LIVE - Exclusive world premiere listening events of new East Forest psychedelic guidance music and online facilitation with JourneySpace.com, Sept 24 and Oct 22nd.Join our East Forest COUNCIL on Patreon.  Monthly Zoom Council, podcast exclusives, live-streams, and more. Listen to East Forest music:  "IN" - the latest full album  release from East Forest - LISTEN NOW: Spotify / AppleListen to East Forest guided meditations on Spotify & AppleOrder a vinyl, dad hats, sheet music, original perfume oils, and more: http://eastforest.orgPlease rate Ten Laws with East Forest in iTunesAnd on Spotify★★★★★Sign up to learn about new retreats, shows in your area, and to join the community.Stay in the flow:Mothership:  http://eastforest.org/IG:  https://www.instagram.com/eastforest/

Join Mary and I as we discuss our recent reading highlights  Podcast Transcript coming soon Mentioned in this episode; The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen (translated by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman) The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft) Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel (translated by Ros Schwartz) Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, Everybody! by Mumu Mike Williams Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent & Jukuna Mona Chuguna (additional writing and translations by Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards) Magabala Books Invisible Cities Reading Project No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian) Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee The Little Girl in the Ice Floe by Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina A. Kover) The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim The Homecoming by Anna Enquist (translated by Eileen Stevens)   Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com Twitter: @translationspod Instagram: translationspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/ Produced by Mccauliflower.

28 October 2021Bayo AkomolafeBecoming Black – The Colonial Grammar of Settlement and the Promise of Fugitive Flighthttps://hessische-theaterakademie.de/de/ringvorlesungBECOMING BLACK - THE COLONIAL GRAMMAR OF SETTLEMENT AND THE PROMISE OF FUGITIVE FLIGHTDie darstellenden Künste lenken unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf den Körper - sie laden uns ein, uns auf "seine" Anforderungen, seine Lebendigkeit und seinen pulsierenden Platz innerhalb einer Politik zu konzentrieren, die dazu neigt, Sprache und Diskurs als das A und O dafür zu betrachten, wie die Welt zu Bedeutung kommt. Ein Teil der Weisheit der Künste besteht jedoch darin, den Körper und seine gesetzten Grenzen zu stören, die ihm zugewiesenen Grenzen zu überschreiten, seine Stabilität und Sicherheit zu stören und Überläufe und neue ethische Formulierungen zuzulassen. Was könnten die Künste in einer Zeit rassifizierter Spannungen, in der bestimmte Körper, nicht ganz menschliche und nichtmenschliche, durch die Intensität und die libidinösen Kräfte der weißen Moderne unfähig, behindert, belagert, unsicher und unzureichend gemacht werden, zum Wunsch nach einer dekolonialen Zukunft beitragen? In diesem Vortrag, in dem Bayo Akomolafe sein Konzept des Schwarz-Werdens erkundet, schlägt er vor, dass die Unsicherheit von Körpern, die Minderheiten angehören - die oft im Rahmen einer Politik der Inklusivität korrigiert werden -, begehrliche Ouvertüren zu anderen Orten der Macht sein können, die die Algorithmen der staatlich geförderten Gerechtigkeit übersteigen. Wenn verunsichert zu sein bedeutet, sich der Verständlichkeit des Kolonialen zu widersetzen und sich auf eine neue, produktive und einladende Tiefe einzustellen, wie könnten uns dann die Künste lehren, verunsichert zu werden, Schwarz zu werden?BIOGRAPHIEBayo Akomolafe ist ein nigerianischer Philosoph, Aktivist und Dozent. Er wurde 1983 in einem christlichen Elternhaus und als Sohn von Yoruba-Eltern im Westen Nigerias geboren. Nachdem er seinen Vater, einen Diplomaten, durch ein plötzliches Herzleiden verloren hatte, zog sich Bayo als Teenager zurück und versuchte, dem "Kern der Sache" auf den Grund zu gehen, um seinen schmerzlichen Verlust zu verarbeiten. Er versuchte, die Extreme seiner sozialen Konditionierung, seines Glaubens und seiner späteren Ausbildung zum klinischen Psychologen auszuschöpfen - nur um festzustellen, dass etwas anderes, das sich nicht artikulieren ließ, an seinen Ärmeln zerrte und wahrgenommen werden wollte. Nachdem er im Rahmen seiner Suche nach einem neuen Verständnis von Trauma, psychischem Wohlbefinden und Heilung mit traditionellen Heilern zusammengetroffen war, verdichteten sich seine tiefgründigen Fragen und seine Sorge um dekolonisierte Landschaften zu einem Leben, das der Erforschung der Nuancen einer "magischen" Welt gewidmet ist, die "zu vielseitig ist, um in unsere liebste Vorstellung von ihr zu passen". Er ist geschäftsführender Direktor und Chefkurator des Emergence Network (ein post-aktivistisches Projekt) und Gastgeber des Online-Schreibkurses "We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence".

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden – and their mother, his wife and “life-nectar”, Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence'. As Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise'…one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us' or the ‘solutions' that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo is author and editor of ‘We will tell our own story!' with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye, and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home‘ (North Atlantic Books, 2017). Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi. His most fervent passions are Ej, drawing, singing, writing, designing, speaking, and traveling. Visit Bayo's website and learn more. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: robyn@activistheology.com or @irobyn To be in touch with Rev. Anna: anna@activistheology.com or @unholyhairetic The Activist Theology Podcast is an Irreverent Media Podcast.

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden – and their mother, his wife and “life-nectar”, Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence'. As Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise'…one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us' or the ‘solutions' that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo is author and editor of ‘We will tell our own story!' with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye, and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home‘ (North Atlantic Books, 2017). Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi. His most fervent passions are Ej, drawing, singing, writing, designing, speaking, and traveling. Visit Bayo's website and learn more. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To support this podcast, please visit https://activistheology.com/give. To follow Activist Theology on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook: @activistheology To be in touch with Dr. Robyn: robyn@activistheology.com or @irobyn To be in touch with Rev. Anna: anna@activistheology.com or @unholyhairetic The Activist Theology Podcast is an Irreverent Media Podcast.

In These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), leading edge thinker and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe embraces some of the world's most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood. Creatively using memoir and the epistolary format, Dr. Akomolafe offers an engaging, thought-provoking look at a range of timely subjects, including the myths of modernity, climate change, food systems, and what it means to be human. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a writer, lecturer, and public intellectual. He is Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network and host of the online writing course “We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence.” He is co-author and co-editor of “We Will Tell Our Own Story!” and creator of a new work called “I Coronoavirus, Mother, Monster, Activist,” which is available at bayoakomolafe.net.  Dr.Susan Grelock Yusem is an independent researcher trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/spiritual-practice-and-mindfulness

In These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), leading edge thinker and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe embraces some of the world's most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood. Creatively using memoir and the epistolary format, Dr. Akomolafe offers an engaging, thought-provoking look at a range of timely subjects, including the myths of modernity, climate change, food systems, and what it means to be human. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a writer, lecturer, and public intellectual. He is Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network and host of the online writing course “We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence.” He is co-author and co-editor of “We Will Tell Our Own Story!” and creator of a new work called “I Coronoavirus, Mother, Monster, Activist,” which is available at bayoakomolafe.net.  Dr.Susan Grelock Yusem is an independent researcher trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

In These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), leading edge thinker and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe embraces some of the world's most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood. Creatively using memoir and the epistolary format, Dr. Akomolafe offers an engaging, thought-provoking look at a range of timely subjects, including the myths of modernity, climate change, food systems, and what it means to be human. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a writer, lecturer, and public intellectual. He is Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network and host of the online writing course “We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence.” He is co-author and co-editor of “We Will Tell Our Own Story!” and creator of a new work called “I Coronoavirus, Mother, Monster, Activist,” which is available at bayoakomolafe.net.  Dr.Susan Grelock Yusem is an independent researcher trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

While the climate crisis and pandemic have – in some respects – heightened our sense of the truly international nature of the challenges we face, the human consequences of global instability are too often overlooked, and the horrors faced by displaced people around the world both taken for granted and invisible. Zoe Holman (Where the Water Ends), Behrouz Boochani (No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison), Adama Kamara from the Refugee Council of Australia, and human rights advocate Zaki Haidari speak with The Guardian's Ben Doherty about the struggle faced by so many to find a safe, permanent home.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is with Bayo Akomolafe author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’ and Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project]. Bayo is also host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. And in this session Bayo takes us into the shapeshifting territory of monstrosity, glitches and fugitively. http://bayoakomolafe.net/ https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ Music is “Starlight” by Chad Crouch Show notes: * we start with a blessing * The notion of the monster and the human * the human is invoked when a pandemic strikes * archetypal lens * “withnessing” the transgressions of the monster * the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis * Stacy Alaimo: "forward movement is longer possible in the Anthropocene" * only awkward movement is possible * it’s time for descent and losing our way generously * sci-fi vision of climate change fully escalated such that we find ourselves at the edge of the ocean * shapeshifting — a new kind of form is required to be alive in these times * maybe we need new gods * James Hillman * we need a story that allows us to shapeshift * there is a place for fugitive departures * our skins are transcorpreal transactions * defraction and a micro-politics of inquiry * making sanctuary together = about shape shifting more than safety * unschooling/parenting as decolonial politics and breathing underwater * co-accountability * we are shaping each other * “I need the playful defraction on your vision" * Meeting the Universe Halfway * we need the children to baptize us into the next * Manish Jain and unschooling * the pandemic helping parents to see their kids perhaps for the first time * stay with the trouble of our kids * those that come after us have things to teach us from a future that has already happened * Yaruba, West African * the psyche is not in the mind but the mind is in the psyche * the world calls on us to be defeated again and again — calling on Rilke * healing as recovery is vexed with tensions * The goddess Akhilandeshvari — one who is never not broken * Yaruba ritual that when the ground is unstable, the thing to do is be still = stay with the trouble * being still before the elder the Coronavirus * archetypes are still alive, we are co-creating with them * the Abrahamic god may not know what to do with upheaval * we need Pan, Ishu and Dionysus when we are fugitive — the gods of becoming * going into the wilds * exteriorizing the danger — the danger is not down the street but we are the products of danger, stars crashing into stars * the invitation is to touch our own bodies and touch the alienness and monstrosity of ourselves as a way to wiser politics and education * total man concept — trying to design the perfect man * sitting in the lostness of things * fear of the normal, being trapped in the normal = the normal as oppressive * staying in the blackhole of the pandemic

Uncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene An Interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe   Friends, we’re thrilled to share with you this most recent interview with our dear friend, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, proud diaper changer, and passionate about the preposterous. He’s a thinker and speaker unlike any you’ve met before. Born and raised in Nigeria, Bayo currently lives with his wife and two children in Chennai, India, and pre-pandemic, spent much time traveling the world teaching on transraciality, emergence, postactivism and more. He is a widely appreciated speaker, teacher, public intellectual, author and facilitator, globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’  Erin first met Bayo while taking this class in 2017, and we’re both thrilled to hear that this life-changing course will be offered again in Fall of 2020. Read more about Bayo and explore his unconventional and refreshing perspectives through his website www.bayoakomolafe.net, including this recent essay, which Erin refers to in our interview. https://bayoakomolafe.net/project/i-coronavirus-mother-monster-activist/     A friend recently said it so well: “I feel if I can relax and let go of a certain part of my mind and just fall in with Bayo’s words, I always grow.” In this conversation, we explore Bayo’s ideas about making sanctuary. He shares Yoruba proverbs, including “In order to find your way, you must become lost,” and “May your road be rough.” We explore white supremacy, colonial mind, and modernity and the unfortunate“flattening of the sacred.” We talk about control, queering binaries, resisting “simple and neat” stories or explanations, and relaxing into our entanglement with the world and each other. Holding the tensions of paradox are a necessary skill. Bayo talks about the necessity of making way for grief, what he calls “the vocational project of touching loss,” and the possibility of decorating these wounds as a way of making sacred.    We also explore topics of justice, fugitivity, bodies as becomings, and explore some musings on how Bayo learned to think in these unique ways. We also speak about the beauty of bewilderment. There’s so much richness in this conversation! We hope you can relax certain parts of your mind and grow as you listen to Bayo “shock you into noticing the world differently.”    You can listen to our first conversation with Bayo in 2018 here: The Light Longs for the Dark: A Conversation with Bayo Akómoláfé - Embodiment Matters

Bayo Akomolafe is globally recognised for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action, activism and social change. He is an international speaker, poet and activist for a radical paradigm shift in consciousness and current ways of living. His readings of ‘knowledge’, ‘development’, ‘progress’ and ‘truth’ as Eurocentric metanarratives led him and his wife, Ej to develop the first International Workshop on Alternative Research Paradigms and Indigenous Knowledge Promotion (WARP, 2011). Bayo is a member of the advisory board of the Real Economy Lab (UK). In 2014, and was awarded for Global Excellence Award [Civil Society] by Future Shapers (California). He is the Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project) [www.emergencenetwork.org], and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. He hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’…one that does not treat the crisis of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo has authored two books, We Will Tell Our Own Story! and These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home.bayoakomolafe.net/ Join the newsletter and be part of the East Forest Council Community. Listen to East Forest guided meditations on Spotify & Apple. Check out the East Forest x Ram Dass album on (Spotify & Apple) + East Forest's Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner 5hr album (Spotify & Apple). *****Please rate Ten Laws w/East Forest on iTunes.  It helps us get the guests you want to hear.  Stay in the East Forest flow:Mothership:  http://eastforest.org/IG:  https://www.instagram.com/eastforest/FB:  https://www.facebook.com/EastForestMusic/TW:  https://twitter.com/eastforestmusic  

What everyone should know about a Kurdish-Iranian refugee's time in Manus prison. Using smuggled mobile phones Kurdish-Iranian refugee Boochani wrote No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison via text messages and with the assistance of translator Omid Tofighian. This book of resistance is a must read for everyone. It is a work of great creativity, beauty and struggle. ⇨ YOU WILL LEARN: * Learn how Behrouz Boochani survived a harrowing journey to Australia * Hear first-hand what life was like inside Manus prison * Discover what makes the Kurdish-Iranian refugee's writing so captivating * And be motivated to start your own life-story project by harnessing some of Boochani's extreme determination to create and document ⇨ FULL ARTICLE Click to read: https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/behrouz-boochani/ ⇨ VIDEO PODCAST Click to watch: https://youtu.be/Wa_bi_rOm1s ⇨ FREE GIFT Four steps to plan your autobiography chapters - FREE structure success video training, click to sign up: https://wp.me/P8NwjM-3o ⇨ YOUR SAY Are you planning to read or have read Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains? I'd love to hear what you thought of the book. Leave me a comment here https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/contact/ ♡ Thanks for listening - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE if you are new and SHARE THE SHOW if you found it helpful! Happy writing! ⇨ ABOUT ME Hi and welcome! My name is Nicola and I help you learn how to write and self-publish life stories for family and friends so that unique memories live on. I've told thousands of people's stories as a daily print journalist since 2002 and would love to hear yours! ⇨ WEBSITE https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com ⇨ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/foreveryoungautobiographies ⇨ YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nfZWWTeRpBWMcxluLDa-w

In this episode, Zack Geist and Bayo Akomolafe engage in a dancing of words around the constantly changing issues of these queer times of Spring 2020. Akin to flies they find themselves tangled in the spider's web, a sensation both uncomfortable and familiar, they attempt to feel their way towards something just out of reach. Energized by the exhausted common narrative Zack and Bayo explore the realm that is inhabited by the invisibles as though they may have been listening all along. They invite you to join them on the edge of where fact and fiction breed and birth the myths that shape the lens of our times. Bayo Akomolafe is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action, activism and social change. He is an international speaker, poet and activist for a radical paradigm shift in consciousness and current ways of living. His readings of ‘knowledge’, ‘development’, ‘progress’ and ‘truth’ as Eurocentric metanarratives led him and his wife, Ej to develop the first International Workshop on Alternative Research Paradigms and Indigenous Knowledge Promotion (WARP, 2011). Bayo is a member of the advisory board of the Real Economy Lab (UK). In 2014, and was awarded for Global Excellence Award [Civil Society] by Future Shapers (California). He is the Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project) [www.emergencenetwork.org], and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. He hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’…one that does not treat the crisis of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify. Bayo has authored two books, We Will Tell Our Own Story! and These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home.

Sydney PEN president Mark Isaacs interviews former PEN Prisoner of Conscience and Kurdish-Iranian writer, Behrouz Boochani, and Dr Omid Tofighian, translator of his book "No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison". This was Behrouz’s first public speaking event since he escaped from Papua New Guinea. Just one week earlier, Behrouz made a secretive journey to New Zealand with the assistance of close friends, Amnesty International and UNHCR. Behrouz was one of hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees who were exiled to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea for more than six years by the Australian government as part of Australia’s punitive border control policies. This event was recorded by Wollongong Writers Festival in November 2019.

Join award winning author and activist, , in conversation Behrouz Boochaniwith his translator Omid Tofighian and author Mark Isaacs. is an autobiographical account of Behrouz Boochani's perilous journey to Christmas Island and his subsequent incarceration in an Australian government immigration detention facility on Manus Island. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison Please Note: Behrouz had to Skype into this session so the audio is a bit rough. We cleaned it up best we could and it is 100% worth the listen. SHOWNOTES: Writes4Festivals Podcasthttp://www.writes4women.com/writes4festivals/Facebook - @Writes4FestivalsTwitter / Instagram - @w4wpodcast Wollongong Writer's Festivalhttps://wollongongwritersfestival.comFacebook @wollongongwritersfestival/Twitter @WGongWritFest Behrouz BoochaniFacebook - @BehrouzBoochaniJournalistTwitter - @BehrouzBoochani Listen Up Podcasting (Kel Butler)www.listenuppodcasting.com.auFacebook / Twitter - @kelbutler @listenuppodcasting

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Ayesha at Last, Leaving the Witness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm,  The Guest Book by Sarah Blake from Flatiron Books, and The Plus One from HarperCollins 360. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong  Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France Patsy: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn  Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah Ayesha At Last: A Novel by Uzma Jalaluddin  On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs  The River by Peter Heller What we're reading: Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg More books out this week: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett  Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr The Milk Hours: Poems by John James Beyond All Reasonable Doubt: A Novel by Malin Persson Giolito That Night by Cyn Balog Assassin of Shadows: A Novel by Lawrence Goldstone This Might Hurt a Bit by Doogie Horner Girls of July by Alex Flinn No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian Dual Citizens: A novel by Alix Ohlin We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib The Reaping (Paperbacks from Hell) by Bernard Taylor The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami and Allison Markin Powell Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian The Beholder by Anna Bright The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey  The Cat in the Box by Chris Ferrie The Friends We Keep by Jane Green Exposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel, Alison Anderson (translator) Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom by Shelby Lorman Murder in Bel-Air (An Aimée Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black The Chosen (Contender) by Taran Matharu This Land Is Our Land by Suketu Mehta The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets  The Love Factory by Elaine Proctor Banshee by Rachel DeWoskin The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen More News Tomorrow: A Novel by Susan Richards Shreve The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen The Electric Hotel: A Novel by Dominic Smith Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen The Great Eastern by Howard Rodman A Small Zombie Problem (Zombie Problems) by K.G. Campbell Trace: Who killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown Unraveling by Karen Lord  I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest Donna Has Left the Building by Susan Jane Gilman Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth by Gordon L. Dillow Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris In at the Deep End by Kate Davies Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman The Summer Demands by Deborah Shapiro Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge, Frank Wynne (translator) In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow  Aug 9 - Fog by Kathryn Scanlan Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert L. 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Lee When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir by Erin Lee Carr Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz Out of Place by Jennifer Blecher, Merrillee Liddiard (Illustrator) If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann Virtually Yours by Sarvenaz Tash Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for ’90s Kids by Sam Slaughter Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson  The Fire Opal Mechanism by Fran Wilde Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel by Neal Stephenson City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert  The Shallows (Nils Shapiro) by Matt Goldman The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby by Matthew Inman and The Oatmeal Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter and Ned's Ultimate Travel Journal by Preeti Chhibber (YAY, PREETI!) Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel by Jean Kwok  This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura We Were Killers Once: A Thriller (Brigid Quinn Series) by Becky Masterman Just One Bite by Jack Heath Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money by Ken Honda Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson, Anne Born (translator)  

In this episode, I talk to Behrouz Boochani, the author of No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. This book is coming out in June 2019 in North America by House of Anansi Press. Boochani's book won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia's richest literary prize, and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction. See this link to order this book and for more information: houseofanansi.com/products/no-friend-but-the-mountains

For a ton of great recommendations most of which were new to us we turned to Anna Bailie Karas from Australian podcast Books on the Go. Listen in to hear about some books that might be new to you, or ones that you might have overlooked when they came out. And finally a book that has all of Australia buzzing that's not yet been published in the UK... Find Books on the Go on iTunes, and on all other major podcast platforms, or check out their website . Find Anna on Instagram @abailliekaras Books mentioned on the show: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man by Jane Harper, outback crime novels We That Are Young by Preti Taneja Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton

Ross McGregor is a musician, songwriter and music producer and was recently inducted into the Tamworth Music Hands of Fame for his services to country music. He’s also one of the few blind music producers in Australia. He chats about what he loves about music and his work for the past 40 years.Also on the program, Frances Keyland presents a very special reader recommended with No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani which recently won The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction.

Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryOmid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was published in 2018. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English. The conversation touched on WIMCM  - Why Is My Curriculum White campaignCommemorating 30 years since the first Fairlea Wring Out demonstration with community activists, academics and prison abolitionists Amanda George and Emma Russell. The first Wring Out Fairlea demonstration was organised by the Coalition Against Women's Imprisonment and took place at the former Fairlea women's prison in Melbourne on 26 June 1988. The Wring Out action was repeated three more times over the next eight years, bringing thousands of people to encircle Fairlea prison in protest and in solidarity with the women inside.https://soundcloud.com/wringoutfairleaChristine Kngwarraye Palmer from GrandMothers Against Removals (GMAR) on the demands made to government during Reconciliation Week to stop the removal of aboriginal young people from their communities.(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)SONG : The Merindas  - We Sing Until SunriseSONG : Pigram Brothers  - Nothing Really MattersSONG: Nice Girls Don't Spit - Fairlea Prison BluesSONG: Baker Boy - Mr La Di Da DiSONG: Baker Boy (ft Yirrmal) - Marryuna

Sales and Crabb look back on 2018. Recorded live at the ANU on Sun 9 December.ANU turned down Ramsay Centre degree after concerns over 'academic autonomy' (Sabra Lane, ABC AM, 26 Jun 2018)Red shoes12 Days of a Canberra Christmas lyricsJacqui Ann, the kindness of Chatters and the 23 minute cabbage.A percentage of the proceeds from all our shows goes to charity, for this Canberra show to Musica Viva In Schools in memory of Richard Gill.Pachinko by Min Jin LeeBoy Swallows Universe by Trent DaltonMuseum of Modern Love by Heather RoseThe Taste of River Water by Kennedy CateDark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce PascoeBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John CarreyrouNo Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian)Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors And The Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth MacyThe Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah KrasnosteinUnfettered and Alive: A memoir by Anne SummersNo Spin by Shane Warne with Mark NicholasSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariMarina Abramović: The Artist is Present (2012 documentary)Marina Abramović meets Ulay - via YouTubeThe Americans (FX) The sixth and final seasonWild Wild Country (2018 documentary series) A guru builds a utopian city in the Oregon desertMaratus (documentary) the photo of a spider it triggers a series of events that make scientific history (via iView)I, Tonya (2018) starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan and Allison JanneyDarkest Hour (2017) starring Gary Oldman and Ben MendelsohnA Star is Born (2018) starring Lady Gaga, Bradley CooperWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Starring Bette Davis, Joan CrawfordTheater of Your Mind Presents: It’s 2:47 am! by Shannon Reed (McSweeney’s, July 6, 2018)Justice Michael Wigney’s Judgement Faruqi v Latham [2018] FCA 1328 (August 2018)Former FBI Director James Comey talks to Leigh Sales (ABC 7.30, 2018 April 19)Garner Text message Clang Ep 76 Helen Garner interrupts a Chat 10 Looks 3 episodeSpecial Guest (2018) by Annabel Crabb and Wendy Sharpe Glass Potatoes Recipe on p 193 (see also recipe online via Broadsheet)Crabb claims that Bonjela can ease your burns.The Cook and the Baker - by Cherie Bevan, Tass Tauroa Oaty Ginger Crunch (see also online recipe via LoveFood)Google 'Scott Morrison' and 'children' and 'juggle'. The result may surprise you by Annabel Crabb( ABC, 19 Sep 2018)The Life of Birds (BBC) David AttenboroughNicholas Nickleby (2002) Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Jim BroadbentPlease Like Me featuring Josh Thomas (via ABC)Persiflage Oxford English DictionaryProng Oxford English Dictionary

Crabb and Sales have been doing some serious reading about people on the margins. Sales still manages to drop a major clang but mercifully doesn't join the ranks of Michael Caine impersonators.The Arsonist - by Chloe HooperThe Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - by Chloe HooperDopesick: Dealers, Doctors And The Drug Company That Addicted America - by Beth MacyOne Hundred Years of Dirt - by Rick MortonWhat I Learned About Poverty by Jane Gilmore (Meanjin, Spring 2018)Michael Caine looks back on his life, films and family - interviewed by Leigh Sales (7.30, 18 Oct 2018)Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life - by Michael CaineComedian Rob Brydon preparing for a stand-up tour of Australia - interviewed by Leigh Sales (7.30, 16 Oct 2018)No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison - by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian)Offshore detention case to be brought to UN against Australian Government as families hope for reunion - by Laura Tingle (7.30, 16 October 2018)This pains me, but it's time to compromise on Australia's cruel asylum seeker policy - Robert Manne (The Guardian, Sun 23 Sep 2018)View the Chat 10 Looks 3 Bookshop "Bedside Table" by going to www.chat10looks3.com and selecting Bookshop from the main menu.Moral High Grounds Cups available until 10 November 2018. https://www.chat10looks3.com/products

3CR Breakfast Thursday 2 August 2018with Em, Katia and Apeec7:00am  Acknowledgement of Country7:05am Song - Searching for Gold, Honeymoon Bridge.  Honeymoon Bridge launches their debut album this Friday 3 August at Northcote Uniting Church. Find them at honeymoonbridge.com7:09am Headlines and Alternative News7:26am Song - Indigenous Land, DRMNGNOW . They played an amazing gig to launch this new track at the Gaso last Wednesday7:30am Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers7:45am Nikki Madgwick, a proud Worimi-Biripi woman from mid-north coast NSW who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land most her life. Nikki writes and performs amazing poetry and works at HICSA, a not-for-profit Indigenous organisation based in Healesville as the Community Engagement Worker.This Saturday 4th August is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day - and this year marks 30 years since this important day was first established.7:56am Song - Sing Until Sunrise, The Merindas8:00am Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is being launched tonight in Sydney. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English.8:25am LIVE CROSS to Katia (Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre) speaking from outside the Prisons 2018 Conference where the ATJC has called a snap action to demand an end to Youth Incarceration.

After a student’s suicide attempt, a Colorado Springs teacher wrote all 130 of her students notes about what made them unique. Suicide rates are unusually high in Colorado’s mountain towns. A Denver writer uses personal tragedy to inspire her fiction.