Available now5-MODULE, ONLINE COURSE

Holistic Knowledge

A black feminist course for everyone

Join advaya and Minna Salami on this journey that illuminates nonconventional ideas and norms. Discover how to think about reality in feminist-empowered, non-fragmented and non-dualistic ways that are healing, elucidating and ultimately liberating.

Curated and facilitated by Minna Salami.

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Each module contributes to a journey to expand and empower your knowing mind, and toward eradicating the delusions and deceptions of europatriarchal knowledge through exciting feminist ways of seeing reality. Sensuous knowledge is present, alive knowledge, and the sessions will be playful, interweaving disciplines, temporalities and cultures. The sessions will include rituals, prompts and practices, and there will be an introduction to a new paradigm shifting tool each week. Conversation and exchange lie at the heart of the course.

Course modules

Module 1

The Master’s Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master’s House

The Yoruba pantheon and it’s playful sagacity; how Europatriarchal Knowledge entangles us into delusions and deceptions; an inquiry into paradigm shifts; the illumination that becomes possible through feminist thought; paradigm shifting tool: Sensuous Knowledge

Module 2

Sensing Into Sensuous Knowledge

How to think, feel, dream, and find ways into sensuousness; transgressing Binaries, Dichotomies, Dualisms; Mind or Matter?; Sociopolitical Desires and Erotic Economies; paradigm shifting tool: The Kaleidoscopic Method

Module 3

What Black Feminism Knows

The radical wisdom of black feminism; intersectional knowledge and power Black feminist poetics; multitudes, gardens and tapestries; paradigm shifting tool: Epistemic polyamory

Module 4

Blue Is a Feminine Colour in Africa

Ancestral protofeminist knowledge; explorative practice in colour as pedagogy; further deconstructions in patriarchal knowledge; feminism, power and self-realisation; paradigm shifting tool: Exousiance

Module 5

Finding Voice in a Europatriarchal World

Transgression vs transcendence; writing from your centre; the wandering voice; intellectual, emotional, soulful, political and embodied at once; paradigm shifting tool: “Doing beauty”

Course information

In order to transform social reality, we must transform what, why, and how we know.

The conventional and dominant approach to knowledge production that shapes the underlying thought patterns of our societies has made us confused and detached from reality. Subsequently, we are detached from each other, from the nonhuman natural world, as well as from our own inner experiences that we find ourselves in a state of systemic confusion and crisis, oppression and injustice. It’s more important than ever to continue to forefront this criticism and to explore new ways of being in the world.

In this interactive and in-depth course, we will transform and shift perspectives holistically. Enriched by an alternative model of knowledge rooted in the dynamic landscape of black feminist thought, we will discover sensuous knowledge.

We will learn feminist, alive and empowering ways of knowing that fosters clear-sightedness and embodied insight. There is no perfect knowledge, but deceptive and delusional knowledge will certain not heal our societies and our ecosystems. To change the world, we need to change our illusions.

Join this journey of Sensuous Knowledge in a course that illuminates nonconventional ideas and norms. Discover how to think about reality in feminist-empowered, non-fragmented and non-dualistic ways that are healing, elucidating and ultimately liberating.

This course starts live 31 July, Mondays weekly from 6–8pm UK.

Read about some of the core questions and themes of this course here and here, and watch our conversation with Minna Salami here (transcript) to preview how you will learn with this teacher.

Course Includes

5 modules

5 sessions

1 speaker

Curated readings, resources and embodiment practices

Community discussion area

Video and audio available

Teachers

Minna Salami

Minna Salami is a Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish feminist author and social critic currently at The New Institute. Her research focuses on Black feminist theory, contemporary African thought, and the politics of knowledge production

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What our students say

Thank you, it was an amazing class and Minna Salami really delivered! Her class outline was wonderfully executed. I was unable to make it to any live meetings but I don't feel like I missed out on anything.

by SJ Wall

Learning outcomes

Why our ideas of knowledge are not neutral
New, disruptive, connected and holistic ways of thinking
Feminist paradigm-shifts and key feminist ideas
Knowledge that isn’t anti-nature, anti-egalitarian, and anti-pluralist
Emotional literacy: What do grief, joy, fear, hope mean in knowledge?
Inquiry into crisis, connectedness, awakening, beauty, desire, and intimacy, and other contemporary topics of importance
Black feminist insight; the feminism in systems-thinking; scientific/poetic ways of knowing; art and aesthetics as sources of embodied knowledge