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The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmon
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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.
centraleurasia.orgthe erotic is a deeply feminine and spiritual resource in us, rooted in the power of our unexpressed & unrecognized feeling. there is untapped potential in the expression of the erotic.
oppression: every form of oppression relies on the distortion or corruption of various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed to maintain itself. thus, oppression is perpetuated when energy for change is drained.
for women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a source of power & information within our lives.
But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need - the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfilment.
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
This internal requirement toward excellence which we learn from the erotic must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others. Such a demand incapacitates everyone in the process. For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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