: pleasure in black feminist futures

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Audre Lorde delivered “Uses of the Erotic,” one of her most seminal works, in 1978 at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Lorde coined the erotic as “a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” In doing so, she made it clear that pornography (and all that it encompasses) was not be taken considered in a women's erotic sensorium...