Uses of the Erotic

Name: Uses of the Erotic
Author: Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde

Essay on power, pleasure, and women's eroticism as source of knowledge and resistance

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Audre Lorde

African American poet and feminist theorist whose Zami: A Biomythography, Sister Outsider, and The Cancer Journals addressed the intersecting oppressions of race, gender, and sexuality with fierce clarity. Her essays articulated the concept of the erotic as a source of power. She described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.'

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