Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
The audio clips sampled in this mix come from the video below. Audre is reading from her essay "Uses of the Erotic:The Erotic as Power." Audre is important in the framing of both decolonial language and poetics in understanding how (dis)placement is sensed in our bodies. In one of her most well known books, she frames the title "Sister Outsider", signifying that we are in the same body both kin and "other", that in each of use various oppressions and epistemic violences are created and sustained.
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Global Flows-Mixtape 1: sonic archive as decolonizing methodology at 243 - 388 seconds
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