Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez,
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez,
amazon.comSaved by Anna and
It helped me to understand that there is no way to repress pleasure and expect liberation, satisfaction, or joy.
This is the unveiling, and at the end of the unveiling, we have nakedness.
For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.
Cause we are species. On a species level, I can feel there’s not a story for our survival in the cards and in ourselves right now.
For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society.
What would I be doing with my time and energy if I made decisions based on a feeling of deep, erotic, orgasmic yes?
Like this is, we are, constantly communicating what is possible. And people are also identifying the level of risk they are willing to take.
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
transforming your fear into erotic power. And transforming desire into transformative action.