Generative incapacitation, as beautifully envisioned by Bayo Akomolafe, is a radical form of un-becoming that challenges the entrenched paradigms of productivity and mastery. It invites us to embrace the fecund potentiality found in our failures, limitations, and incapacities. Far from being merely a state of passivity or helplessness, generative incapacitation is an active engagement with the world's ambiguities, an exploration of the generative spaces that emerge when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable and undone. It is a call to unlearn the dominant narratives of control and to find wisdom in the fragile, the uncertain, and the incomplete. This concept suggests that true creativity and transformation are born not from dominance and certainty but from our ability to surrender and be remade by the world’s complexities. In this space, incapacitation becomes a fertile ground for new possibilities, new connections, and new ways of being.

See also: white supremacy, intergenerational trauma, slave trade, black lives, colonial order