https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk en-us 2021-01-25 21:10:17 UTC 2021-03-07 21:09:18 UTC hello@padlet.com aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124229116 2021-01-25 21:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124229116 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124230086 "As Black women we have the right and responsibility to define ourselves and to seek our allies in common cause: with Black men against racism, and with each other without fear and to love where we choose." (pg. 52)]]> 2021-01-25 21:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124230086 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124256759 "The supposition that one sex need the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal." (pg. 51)]]> 2021-01-25 21:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124256759 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124260530 "To the racist, Black people are so powerful that a presence of one can contaminate a whole lineage; to the heterosexist, lesbians are so powerful that the presence of one can contaminate the whole sex." (pg. 51)]]> 2021-01-25 21:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124260530 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124271851 "The Black lesbian has come under increasing attack from both Black men and heterosexual Black women." (pg. 49)]]> 2021-01-25 21:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124271851 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124274141 "But most of all, as Black women we have the right and responsibility to recognize each other without fear and to love where we choose." (pg. 52) ]]> 2021-01-25 21:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124274141 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124279894 "In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial." (pg. 58)]]> 2021-01-25 21:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124279894 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124286826 "The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient...and leads us to accept many facets of our oppression as women." (pg. 58)]]> 2021-01-25 21:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124286826 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124290924 "And [erotic knowledge] is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, not the merely safe." (pg. 57)]]> 2021-01-25 21:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124290924 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124297809 "The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all of our deepest knowledge." (pg. 56) ]]> 2021-01-25 21:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124297809 aj609 https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124304813 "When I speak of the erotic...I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of the creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives." (pg. 55) ]]> 2021-01-25 21:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aj609/q02cpcwru9kh3chk/wish/1124304813