Audre Lorde explores the power of the erotic as a force of empowerment for women, challenging societal suppression and reclaiming the importance of deep, unapologetic feeling in personal and collective liberation.
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But... See more