Ep.13 Minna Salami-Sensous Knowledge & Bridging tensions between Feminism & the Feminine

Minna Salami aka @msafropolitan is the author of Sensous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. In this broad and artful book Minna gives expression to a more expansive approach to knowledge, explores Beauty and re-conceives of Power as ‘Exousiance’. Through insights from the natural world and the embodied, expressive and poetic dimensions she articulates a power through us rather than over others.  

In this conversation we explore why I was drawn to her personal and dialectical approach to the tensions between feminism and the feminine. We consider concerns about a feminism that is grounded in materialism, fragmentation or psychological reaction and Minna articulates what kind of ‘conscious’ or wise feminism is needed to ‘foster a higher dimension of coexistence’. I deeply enjoyed the way that Minna imbues her writing with the richness of her own life and we end by exploring the deep significance for her thought of the patterns that occur throughout nature.