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)
Therefore, what does it mean to live erotically in a world designed to suppress the erotic? It means making decisions that align with your aliveness, even if they offend your ego, your upbringing, your pay check. It means walking away from a job that kills your soul. Reading poetry instead of productivity manuals. Saying “yes” to a conversation tha... See more
Tamara • Erotic Decisions
The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible. Within the celebration of the erotic in all our endeavours, my work becomes a conscious decision - a longed-for bed which I enter gratefully and from which I rise up empowered.
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
why are we afraid of LOVE? 🥀reflecting on creativity + eros 🌹
youtu.beAnother important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy.