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Colonization put a straight-jacket on our sexuality. It denigrates sexuality and sexual powers into a
commodity, an object, and associated it with dirty, shame, something impure and not to be seen in the
light. Colonization pushed our sexual powers into darkness, and called it “bad.” Naked bodies are to only
exist in the dark, not seen as the diverse beauty that the Creator gave us.
The suppression of our eros, a natural inborn gift that we each have, has robbed us of our aliveness. We
need to ask ourselves, at what cost?
Audre Lorde reads
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
LISTEN
Learning suddenly implicates us in each other, our
desires, and eros. We talk a good game about finding
deep connections and even family
when we gather but I say ¡basta!,
we can no longer meet each
other with the word ‘love’ in our
mouths while we shove desire
into some dark, unexamined
corner of our pedagogies.
And when I say desire, I’m talking
about it all: Eros. Attraction.
Sensuality. Creativity. Sexuality.
Sex. Passion. Creation. With self,
with other humxns, with the divine.
—Kate
When in truth, our erotic power is something so pure, beautiful, powerful, and sacred. Our sexual selves
is an integral part of our being. Systems we live in keep us from our erotic power, designed to keep us
from our interdependence.
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.
—Audre Lorde in Erotic is Power
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