Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
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Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
the power of the erotic as an expansive resource of power that moves us way beyond genital sex into the realm of imagination, creativity, and liberation.
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As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. I am speaking here of the necessity for reassessing the quality of all the aspects of our lives and of our work, and of how we move toward and through them
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
he erotic functions for me in several ways, and the first is in providing the power which comes from sharing deeply any pursuit with another person. The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lesse... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects h
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Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, hearkening to its deepest rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is dancing, building a bookcase... See more