Feminism & Non-Dualism with Minna Salami

Thursday March 19th
Doors & drinks at 6.30pm; Talks starts 7pm

Across many contemplative traditions, non-duality names a way of understanding the world that refuses the fiction of separation. It reminds us that self and world, inner life and social reality, mind and body are not oppositional but deeply entangled.

Less often recognised is that non-dualism is also a key idea in the feminist tradition. Feminist traditions have long challenged the hierarchical binaries that underpin power: male and female, reason and emotion, culture and nature, human and non-human. These divisions are not neutral. They are historical narratives that justify hierarchy, violence and exclusion. From a feminist perspective, non-dualism becomes a framework for truth, relationality and attention to lived experience.

The urgency of this perspective is clear in the present moment. We are living through overlapping crises that can feel relentless: the return of authoritarian politics, mass violence, public reckonings with hidden systems of sexual power and impunity, alongside ecological emergency. These issues are connected by a worldview that fragments reality and separates us from the world we inhabit.

In this talk, Minna Salami - a Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish thinker, author of "Can Feminism Be African?" and the Substack Kaleido: The Europatriarchy Files - will bring together the political and spiritual meanings of non-duality by exploring what happens when we observe that politics and spirituality are also not separate.

Drawing on feminist philosophy and contemplative insights as well as contemporary political and cultural examples, she will argue that moving beyond either/or thinking is not a retreat from politics but a deepening of it: a shift toward relational power, epistemic clarity and more integrated ways of knowing, living and acting in a time of profound uncertainty and crisis.

Minna's talk will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and discussion

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talks starts at 7pm. 

£8 Frequent Visitor and Supporter Members; £15 Standard (includes Community Members); £10 Struggling financially; £8 Under 30s; £20 Supporter. Food complimentary. (To find out more about membership, visit our Membership page.)

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