To LIVE Erotic Joy, Embodied Presence, and Sacred Sensuality
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
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... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Something I think about a lot is how liberation has always been spiritual, always been embodied. There’s an ancestral component to this. Getting ourselves free has always involved spirit, and always involved the body.
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more
I don’t mean spirit in a floaty, abstract, white-washed way.
I mean ass-shaking.
I mean hair-braiding.
I mean altar-tending.
I mean sweat... See more