Are We Imagining A Better Future Into Existence? with adrienne maree brown
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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The Uses of the Erotic as Power
Pleasure activism is really rooted in a lot of the work of Audrey Lord particularly this essay which you can look it up and you can hear her reading it in her own voice. It talks about how when we have felt the erotic aliveness run all the way through us that it becomes impossible to settle for self negation or self denial. The shaping of oppression is to make you feel bad if you feel good to make you feels like your dreams don't matter, she says. There's something compelling about Octavia Butler's future imagined communities are very symbiotic and pleasures at the center of them.
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