It’s really about, “Oh, I feel very free.” To me, the work was about, how do we remind people that you were free to begin with. I’m like, “When I’m having an orgasm, I’m not like, slavery!” You know, I’m like, “You might be my slave, but …” You know, in a good way. To me, pleasure is a way that we tap down into that. There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression. Like adrienne, the book is wildly popular and out now from AK Press. In this interview, she speaks with us from Bluestockings, a feminist bookstore in New York City about the legacies of the erotic - from Octavia Butler to Audre Lorde and what it means to not just survive, but to seek and find pleasure. What would it look like to love without fear, to practive pleasure activism? adrienne has joined us on the show before to discuss organizing as science fiction and the work of Octavia Butler.
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