Bayo Akomolafe

Body Becoming

“Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza's body is a vast terrain of storied longings, traumatic memories, and troubling tensions. You would think that they would want to do everything to get away from it, to renounce it. Instead, by embracing this intelligent territory, they redeem it from its significatory internment as a fait accompli, electing instead to think alongside Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophies, relational cosmologies, liberation theologies, and the soft secretions of their own compelling narratives of struggle and emergence to weave an account of the body that is simultaneously strange, emancipatory, and--yes--joyful. I might be so bold as to prophesy that by the time you are done reading Robyn's book, you'd walk past the mirror to look outside the window--just to catch a glimpse of your face.”

Collisions of Earth and Sky

“If you have ever had your ears stolen by a wild longing, if you have ever sought a grander healing, let the caress of Heidi Barr's words and rhapsodies sway you toward the magic of the world wild and alive.”

The Sandbox Revolution

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“The Sandbox Revolution is a living cartography of tears, memory, ritual, prayer, hope, and play that will help you indwell the sacredness of your role.”

This Sweet Earth

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“With this precious pollination song, this wind-swept map-book, Wylie-Kellermann invites us to the fugitive vocation of wandering with our children--reminding us that it is in radical accompaniment that we might catch a glimpse of what they've always known, what my daughter seems to know now: that endings are strewn with stranger worlds, and the gift of our journeys lies not in arriving, but in the traveling together.”

Turned On

“Modernity gives an account of a world of already-made parts, a world of complete things, immobile in their frozen ontologies. A world where full descriptions are possible. In this fluid, enrapturing spell of a book, Brie Stoner stirs up a process philosophy of life in which boundaries are never still, bodies live only through other bodies, and the orphaned ‘I’ of colonial lore finds itself already orgasmically entangled in a vast movement that exceeds its isolation. What emerges from this textual lovemaking is a practical, down-to-earth paean to a cosmic intimacy, a prior generosity, that connects our relationships, our failures, and our most vulnerable moments of love and seeking to every rock, bump, and shadow in the world. No one and nothing is spared the reach of Brie’s embrace.”