Kamora's Cultural Corner

09/04/2026

Hello Beautiful Humans!
There is NO shortage of opinions about what is wrong with the world we live in. We know how to talk about racism, homophobia and transphobia, poverty, housing, food insecurity, education, violence, Trump, Epstein, Democrats, Republicans, nonprofits, government and all of the institutions that somebody else needs to fix.

AND if you know me, Imma bring it back to us, every time.
We live in the Land of Steady Habits, and some of those habits run DEEP. Our 169 towns have gotten really good at pretending that what happens on one side of a town line has nothing to do with the folks on the other.

But what happens in Hartford is connected to West Hartford and Bloomfield and Newignton. What happens in Waterbury is connected to Wolcott and Litchfield and Cheshire etc. What happens in our wealthy communities is connected to what happens in our poorest communities; our lived experiences are intertwined whether we want to acknowledge it or not.
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So, what are WE doing?
What happens in your body when somebody challenges something you believe? Who do you listen to? Who have you already decided you don’t have to listen to? What do you do with the access, power, privilege, knowledge, relationships and resources that YOU have? AND can you remain in relationship with another human being without requiring them to agree with you?

The answer is, of course, YES. But only with intention and work, because COMMUNITY is a verb and requires something from us.
Finding Cultural Humility Within My Grandmother’s Hands is nine months of DOING that work together, in a casual and meaningful way. We are going to PAUSE and pay attention to our bodies. We’re going to notice our habits, we’re going to work through an amazing book together and we’re going to talk about what is happening in the world around us while we practice what it means to live in community with other a truly diverse hodgepodge of human beings.
The Revolution is in the Pause, and the Pause is just the beginning!

Register today!
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09/03/2026

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08/31/2026

These times are urgent, it's time to slow down. The transition time between summer and fall is a good time to consider growth; your own and collective growth, and what it takes to practice community when difference, conflict and uncertainty show up. I'm sharing some thoughts and ideas and what the KCC is up to and hope you can check it out!https://conta.cc/4xFFyYT

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08/30/2026

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08/30/2026

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08/28/2026

https://www.courant.com/2020/08/31/for-hartford-demonstrator-march-on-washington-a-demand-for-lgbtq-rights-too/

6 years ago on today's date.
Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
08-28-2020 | Washington, D.C.
Al Sharpton
Martin Luther King III
Ephraim Adamz
Freedom March NYC
House of Comme des Garcons
Michael Clark
and more.

08/28/2026

08/26/2026

Dear friends, dear strangers, dear undecided,



You are warmly invited to an evening of unhurried trouble.



On Thursday, September 24, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics will host a public conversation between David Abram and me - brothers in thought and cosmic mischief, as I'd like to think - as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Series: "Now at the End of Things, A Plea for Magic."



It is often said that we live in disenchanted times, that the world has been measured, mapped, monetized, and mostly explained. And yet the word 'machine' and the word 'magic' grew from the same ancient root - almost as if modernity, in its rush to file the world under the practical, misplaced its own twin. (the twin, we suspect, has been in the room the whole time.)



Together with host Alex Forrester, David and I will ask what it means to plead for magic at the end of things: when our senses of the possible are besieged, when agency has been asphyxiated into the crystallized lines of the practical (the regime of responsivity I call 'Pragma'), and when the pragmatic insists it is the only adult in the room.

I think this will be closer to a séance for the possible than a lecture. It will be an evening of story, etymology, mischief, and the kind of question that does not resolve so much as it recruits, enlists, and spirits away!



Come as you are. Bring your doubts; they are excellent company.

Thursday, September 24, 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30) / Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Sliding-scale tickets



Let us begin.

Bayo Akomolafe

https://www.universe.com/events/now-at-the-end-of-things-a-plea-for-magic-tickets-91WFC8

08/24/2026

Big news!! 🎉🚀

I wrote a stage play, and starting September 10 it comes to life at Penumbra Theatre!!

I still cannot fully put into words what it means to see something I wrote move from paper into bodies on a stage. This is the closest I have come to offering you blackness instead of darkness, in full color, right in front of you. If you are anywhere near Saint Paul this fall, I want you in that room.

Get your tickets 🎟️: penumbracenter.org/event/mothership

Please share this with someone in the Twin Cities who should mark their calendar now!! 🖤