On March 6, 2025, Báyò Akómoláfé, Erin Manning, and Alex Forrester convened online for “Becoming Unsettled,” an exploration of white settlement and the shapes it proliferates to keep itself aloft, as well as blackness. Not the Blackness that settles, but the blackness that unravels the settled. Becoming unsettled is becoming black. It is not taking on a new colour; it is being rendered unrenderable by asystemic forces that sidle the logics of settlement; it is how we name the fugitive and apophatic forces that refuse the frightening valour and magisterial decree of Eden that all of creation be still, once and for all.
Becoming Unsettled: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us
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Báyò Akómoláfé
Báyò Akómoláfé (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. 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 … Continued
Erin Manning
Erin Manning is a cultural theorist working at the intersections of philosophy, aesthetics, and politics, with a distinct focus on alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. As a Canada Research Chair in Speculative Pragmatism, Art, and Pedagogy at Concordia University in Montreal, she integrates pedagogical experiments into her work, fostering innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Manning … Continued
Alex Forrester
Alex Forrester is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Rising Tide Capital, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization based in Jersey City, NJ working at the intersection of inclusive economics, social justice, and entrepreneurship. Since 2004, through his work at Rising Tide Capital, Alex has been at the forefront of a movement for grassroots economics … Continued