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Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)
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As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. I am speaking here of the necessity for reassessing the quality of all the aspects of our lives and of our work, and of how we move toward and through them
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

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
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
THERE 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
