The Reading Room: A Public Study of Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic”
On the first full moon of the new year, I’m opening the doors to Intimate Practice, my new study space for relational intelligence, erotic lineage, and embodied scholarship — and you’re invited to our inaugural Reading Room.
We’ll begin exactly where so much of our work must begin: with Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.”
The vibe:
Your favorite WGST/sociology/feminist philosophy faculty advisor hosts your senior-level seminar in their living room. You do your pre-seminar reading tucked away on an old wooden chair on the top floor of the library. It's early evening, and the snow is just beginning to fall.
Together, we’ll practice:
reading slowly, generously, attentively
letting a text rearrange something inside us
tracing the threads between desire, power, and possibility
studying not for mastery, but for aliveness and liberation
This event is free and open to the public — an introduction to the space I’ll be tending with more depth, rigor, and intimacy inside Patreon.
An invitation:
This event marks the launch of Intimate Practice, my new Patreon — a kitchen table and study room for the crips, the queers, the doulas, and the whores. If you enjoy this conversation, you’re warmly invited into the full six-month study cycle beginning in January. Join us inside here.