Bodeme in harlem: An African diasporic autoethnography

Abstract

This autoethnography describes the author's experience in a learning community of people of the African diaspora1 in New York City engaged in studying the cosmology, cosmogony, ritual, talismanic magic, oracle divination and principles of ecological well-being of the Dagara people under the tutelage of Dr. Malidoma Patrice Some. The author uses the chronicle of the experience to critically examine the discourses on bodeme or gatekeeper, a Dagara concept that has implications for understanding bisexuality, polyamory and genderqueer embodiment from an African perspective. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.