Fugitive space is a concept coined by Bayo Akomolafe to describe sites of unregulated existence or deeply hidden artistic, political and spiritual potential. It is a space where freedom can unfold, unbounded by hierarchical or colonial systems of order, where potent self-expression and convergence of non-capitalist modalities may arise. It is a space of subversive creativity and resistance, which resists being appropriated or consumed, where being and becoming are larger than capital can imagine. Fugitive space allows for the possibility of an unfinished present—a present in which the aesthetics of liberation and possibility remain open-ended and perpetually emergent.

See also: become fugitive, claiming sanctuary, police brutality, climate justice, black geographies