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When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Middle Is Not Halfway Between Two Poles

The Yonggu people of Arnhem land in northeastern Australia have a name for this brilliance, buringong. The middle I speak of is not halfway between two poles, it is a porousness that mocks the very idea of separation. Buringong speaks of ancestry, cutting into the present, identities queered and tongues rendered unintelligible.

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