Audre Lorde defines the erotic in an interesting way: “When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowlege and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history our dancing, our loving, our work, our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Erotic’
A New Definition of the Erotic
Posted in feminism, tagged activism, Audre Lorde, Erotic on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Stolen Erotic
Posted in art, feminism, tagged Abstract Expressionism, Audre Lorde, Erotic, Hauns Hoffman, Jackson Polluck, Lee Kraser on February 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This semester, I am enrolled in a Contemporary Art History class. During the second lecture of this course, our professor introduced Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner. I assumed what would be most memorable about Lee’s story would be her work, but what I ended up taking away from this lecture was much more. Instead of her [...]