Intuition

In today's episode Guilaine reflects on intuition. What it means to include or to exclude the guts, the body, knowing with the body, knowing outside of “rational paradigms” or whatever we choose to call these forms of understanding. 

She defines the areas that intuition can cover and the different ways that people can think about these phenomena, and draws on her own lived experience as someone who is not an expert on intuitive thought academically but is quite an intuitive person and takes intuition seriously, and who comes from a family and culture that takes intuition seriously.

She considers the ways that those with initiation can be encouraged by White Supremacy and other systems of oppression to not trust this form of knowledge. She thinks about different ways of knowing and considers how neurodivergence is impacted by society not taking intuition seriously. And she asks what does it mean in the context of the workplace to include "the guts"? Should we, should we not? What are we losing when we don’t? And can intuition be a lens that helps the unsaid be said in the context of racialised violence and oppression?

This episode touches on things she covered within Living While Black: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442992/living-while-black-by-kinouani-guilaine/9781529109436

And chimes with her thinking around Epistemic Homelessness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKBLPbkB5I

Epistemic homelessness: ‘feeling like a stranger in a familiar land https://mediadiversified.org/2017/11/24/epistemic-homelessness-feeling-like-a-stranger-in-a-familiar-land/

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