Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- UPDATE: Here is a link to a FULL version of Lorde reading the essay, including the last bit that is cut off in the video you're currently watching:
• Audre Lorde reads Uses...
The sound is a bit better as well. Enjoy!
Original description of this video: An early version of one of the most important essays of the 20th century read by its author Audre Lorde. "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" is included in the collection Sister Outsider. The text version is about a page longer. Seek it out!
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Never gone are they? Our ancestors and their wisdom can always be here with us. This essay led me back into the college classroom, largely because I needed to read and think critically in a space that was well...about the promotion of those values which unfortunately I could not find in my community of origin at that time. It is always on the reading lists of the courses I teach, because yes...it led me into become a warrior for freedom and justice in academia.
I come back to this again and again and again in my life.
This!!!! Right here is the agitated angst I've been feeling and experiencing all my life in relationship to the direct desire to birth my true power in a world among both men and women who are still asleep via my sacral chakra! Wow. This is truth beyond measure. Thank you!
This woman changed and shaped my whole thought and being as a black woman in her expression of the black feminist movement.Its so deep ,ever so often I have to revisit her work to remind myself.
Recognition of the erotic as "empowerment to action" to the "yes" that is witheld, to our connection to everything around us...Only now do I understand the full magnitude of this essay, and I so appriciate her words, and her work!
This is the Bible
I listen to this daily
This is what i needed to hear. Its so healing ❤
I come back to this every few years to remind myself that I am ok to lead with the erotic instead of alway with the logical.
Read it many years ago. Wonderful to hear her beautiful voice speak it.
Such a great anthem to life; also explains why pornograpy is cancerous. Promising what can never be delivered, the erotic - its something without goal or responsibility outside of mundane self-perpetuation. Really grateful Sally Rooney mentioned her!
Listen to this everyday!!!!!
This came into my mind again today. Thank you for uploading.
I LOVE her. This is so inspiring, I can't even....
This gave me chills
Ooofff!! Such rich goodness in here! Yes Audre! Preach!
Grande! un abbraccio alla tua Anima sublime e profonda, Audre Lorde!
Very empowering message she ia truly an inspiration to us all as woman.
This is prolific. Most ways out of oppression can be found in this talk.
Her words live on... see the Audre Lorde Project, New York
Born of Chaos- and personifying creative power, and harmony
powerful video, erotica as part of life as suppose to cheap thrill and entertainment of sex.
This. Just yes.
Empowering women everywhere.
This is fucking awesome, I recommend reading the final essay while she reads this and seeing what she left out...
Profound
Spiritual androgyny is what it's all about. The masculine & feminine principles comprise everything & don't exist without each other. The term "erotic" seems to hint that all of existence equates to an act of sex & that the only thing that's pornographic is the act of relegating one's totality of awareness into a single, infinitesimal, & inordinate fixation upon a single aspect of reality (usually the result of fear).
A truly feminine woman must borrow from the masculine principle & a truly masculine man must likewise borrow from the feminine principle, even though both may wish to express a healthy bias towards either end. That bias is best achieved however by means of fully embracing its counterpart, which for some people may seem to be an unworkable paradox but it's nonetheless the truth of the matter (i.e. you can only have the whitest white if it's juxtaposed to the blackest black).
The extremes of either masculinity or femininity can both become very ugly conditions. There is for example, a Satanic cabal which is deep into debauchery (an extreme of the feminine principle) which then bolsters an unhealthy extreme of the masculine principle. It's not just an issue of toxic masculinity, the two principles must always equally match each other in collaboration. The only real issue at hand, is that the average person isn't being taught about the imperative of spirutual androgyny & how to balance their own Being.
The masculine & feminine principles do inherently have bias correlations with gender, but ultimately operate independently of gender: There can be certain women who are more masculine than average men, & certain men who are more feminine than average women. And we must ask ourselves why children (who are earlier born & inherently closer to source); why is their predominant trait androgyny? Why indeed, this is the only question we have to think about really, isn't it?
The feminine principle is in fact superior in the sense that it precedes the masculine principle & that it most embodies the inward spiritual journey. It's the implosive force our explosive society is in such dire need of. If we were fully integrated into the feminine principle, we wouldn't have explosive phallic rockets launching into space, we'd have things like anti-gravity & superluminal propagation. It's literally the next step!
6:23 - 6:45 - 7:23 - 8:15 the aim of each thing we do... on the celebration of the erotic in one's work. painter's and cruelty
Poooo-tent!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Teach it to your daughters and your sons!
Not to settle for what is convenient or conventional or merely safe::::
Super empowering
0:00 - 2:34 How the male model of power trumps the erotic
Is this a recording of Lorde at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, or something else?
Yes yes!!!
Brilliant.
genius...
Audre Lorde has given me such strength. ❤️❤️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
She moves me every time.
Does anyone know where to find the essay online? I'm doing an essay on representations of womanhood and it would be quite useful ;/
How did the essay turn out? :)
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someone please dumb this down for me haha
This is fucking awesome.
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Is there someplace online where I can read this essay? I can't find anything.
aquarius1986 i had it for my philosophy class, I could email it to you.
www.cds.hawaii.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/resources/diversity/SisterOutside.pdf
I had to read it for a class, but the prof did not upload it for us. I found this video, but I also found this linked to the Wikipedia page for The Erotic. There are even a couple extra paragraphs which Lorde did not read in this speech (the last page or so)
uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf
Enjoy!
no audio - anyone else?
Crazy!
I have no idea what she is talking about. She doesn't explain her positions. She says the phrase "the erotic" way too much.