But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. This issue is grounded in the same foundational text with which the book opens, “ Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” from self-defined “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde in 1978. Three years later, it has been a delight to work with the team at YES! Magazine to create an issue on pleasure activism in our current context. In 2019, I published Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, a collection of essays, interviews, practices, poems, and art from myself and other writers and movement workers.
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