Erotics of Liberation
I always prioritize how people feel.20 Is it a pleasure to be with each other? Does the agenda or space allow for aliveness, connection, and joy? Is there a “yes!” at the center of the work? There are so many things that are violent, offensive, unbearable. An embodied “no” is so justified—but I don’t believe it moves us forward.
“Yes!” has a future.
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
My work is guided by and lives within three core pillars:
- Erotic Joy — joy as aliveness, a source of creativity, refusal, and collective power.
- Sacred Sensuality — the honoring of the body, pleasure, and ritual as technologies of knowing and portals of spirit.
- Embodied Presence — the practice of showing up in fullness, where beauty, identity, and
About - Black Feminine Cultural Mysticism: UNBOUND
- Claim Erotic Joy: curate joy as ritual. Make a playlist that recharges you. Dance in the living room. Laugh without apology. Adorn yourself as devotion. Guard your delight as a political inheritance.
- Root in Embodied Presence: practice the self-gaze. Photograph yourself for remembrance, not for consumption. Honor your quiet interior life as much