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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
Writer and activist Audre Lorde on how self-acceptance reduces the power others have over you:
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
3-2-1: On Choosing Your Pain, Self-Acceptance, and Seizing Opportunities | James Clear
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
Writer Audre Lorde on acting in the face of fear:
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs ... and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.... See more
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs ... and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.... See more
3-2-1: On simplicity, having good ideas, and acting in the face of fear
For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment.