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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.
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
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Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
youtube.comTHERE ARE MANY kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within t... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Penguin Modern)
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When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an individua... See more