Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Apartheid is a spatial temporal arrangement of bodies, a racialized arrangement of bodies that enacts an apartheid structure...it's a weaponized separation, it's the pathologization of difference or thinking of difference as transcendent not imminent. Bodies are continually differencing through ecologies. Our porous boundaries are continually trafficking. Modernity doesn't know how to think in scandalous ways like that so it demarcates bodies and in a very roundabout way. Those who have been demarcated, those who have been set aside and differentiated learn to see that the only way they can flourish is to maintain weaponized demarcations.

Bayo Akomolafe

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