HUNGRY FOR HOME

Hungry for Home began with a question-

“who am I outside the sociogenic codes {socially constructed scripts of human identity/sense of self and worth} who am I outside the invisible narrative codes and scripts society writes on/for me?”

Cultural Theorist Sylvia Wynter called it bios-mythoi, {we are both biological and storytelling beings} and the stories we’re taught about who we are, shape who we think is human and what it means to be human. [We are Bios-Mythoi] human narratives written into our bodies by systems that decided, long before our birth, what kind of human we were permitted to be. This is the root of The Betrayal Box.

Our first betrayal story.

The bios-mythoi of betrayal stories. But what happens when we author our own narratives? When we narrate embodiment through the lens of our lived wisdom and Ancestral Intelligence? What happens when you return to the soil that predates the script? When we remember that culture is a living architecture, home becomes a practice. Home becomes a practice we co-create, build, and remember together.

“put into practice what we remember “ - Malidome Patrice Somè

This is how we build our cultural trust practice. Not a place. A practice. A ceremony of return. Crafting narratives from our African cultural soil keeps me grounded in this truth:

✨we are all culture creators and keepers.

✨we are all archivists of something the world tried to make us forget.

The work is not just to remember. It is to “put into practice what we remember “ - Malidome Patrice Somè It is to author.

To move from the story written onto us, to the one that rises from us. Sylvia Wynter reminds us to find ceremony in our un/becoming. Home is waiting to be remembered.

Home Have everything you need. Be the ceremony.