![]() ![]() ![]() In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.” “Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within. ![]() The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our oppression as women. Feeling good is not frivolous, it is a measure of freedom-not just the physical freedom of the body to pursue the pleasures of the flesh, but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom to feel content, happy, and present in our brief and potent lives.Īs Audre Lorde shared in her 1978 groundbreaking essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”: “The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance. ![]()
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