To 'become fugitive,' as envisioned by Bayo Akomolafe, is to embrace a profound estrangement from the normative structures that define and constrain our existence, slipping through the interstices of the meticulously constructed realities that bind us. It is a dance of refusal and transcendence, a radical act of becoming otherwise, where we allow ourselves to be led by the wild, uncharted rhythms of the world. In becoming fugitive, one does not merely escape; one reinvents and reimagines, yielding to the fertile chaos of unknowing and inhabiting the spaces where the margins bleed into the center. It is a sacred evasion, a poetic subversion of what is, making space for what could be, and in this nomadic state, discovering a deeper, more resonant truth woven into the fabric of the cosmos.

See also: making sanctuary, black bodies, slave trade, white ally, racial justice