Breathing With

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Maria do Mar Castro Varela - Zweifel Erlernen, Egoismus Verlernen:\\
https://soundcloud.com/sophiensaeleberlin/maria-do-mar-castro-varela-vortrag-im-rahmen-des-festivals-risk-resilience


Audre Lorde, Poetry is not a luxury,
https://vimeo.com/427462264


Ewa Majewska/ weak resistance\\
https://www.ici-berlin.org/people/majewska/\\


Adrienne Mareen Brown: On Vulnerability, Playfulness and keeping yourself Honest:\\
https://vimeo.com/474744892?fbclid=IwAR2Jmc6zytOrTcpKG_zZUEVRQTpvYDb-0gd2l9W782h3qDiqqbH5-4Ca_FE

Denise  Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri, Poethical Reading
https://www.kabk.nl/en/events/online-studium-generale-lecture-denise-ferreira-da-silva-valentina-desideri

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https://www.kuow.org/stories/adrienne-maree-brown-on-finding-joy-during-the-coronavirus-crisis
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E like Erotic
„In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.“ (aus Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism, p.27)
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Silvia Frederici: Wxtch Craft\\
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7649125/video/479995019?fbclid=IwAR0pFuvCTvfJ2qtJTO8WMfFHLitj3rAUOlK8A6UymyVTOE_MCtsYzn0VfkY
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Judith Butler on grief (sie ist die letzte, ganz hinten):\\
https://www.kommunikation.aau.dk/forskning/vidensgrupper/cqs/sorg/arrangementer/vis/the-culture-of-grief----philosophy--ecology-and-politics-of-loss-in-the-twenty-first-century.cid455301?fbclid=IwAR0X5B6vWN8Zj2USkVvzjXHl42xdEz3Zfd7WElS4ip1VliXduA7UCzsB3kg
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**Care Work**:\\
https://www.akpress.org/carework.html\\
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Audre Lorde in "The Uses of The Erotic":\\
"But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity **is a luxury only  the  unintentional  can  afford,  and  the unintentional  are  those  who  do  not  wish  to guide their own destinies**."\\
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„The  principal  horror  of  any  system  which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in  terms  of  human  need,  or  which  defines human  need  to  the  exclusion  of  the psychic and  emotional  components  of  that  need—the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our  work  of  its  erotic  value,  its  erotic  power and life appeal and fulfillment. Such a system reduces  work  to  a  travesty  of  necessities,  a duty  by  which  we  earn  bread  or  oblivion  for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount  to  blinding  a  painter  and  then  telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.“
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„The erotic functions for me in several ways, and  the  first  is  in  providing  the  power  which comes  from  sharing  deeply  any  pursuit  with another  person.  The  sharing  of  joy,  whether physical,  emotional,  psychic,  or  intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not  shared  between  them,  and  lessens  the threat of their difference. Another important way in which the erotic connection  functions  is  the  open  and  fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my  body  stretches  to  music  and  opens  into response,  hearkening  to  its  deepest  rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is  dancing,  building  a  bookcase,  writing  a poem, examining an idea. That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which I know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling. And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have  to  be  called  marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.“
This is one reason why the erotic is so feared ,and  so  often relegated  to  the  bedroom  alone, when it is recognized at all. For once we begin to  feel  deeply  all  the  aspects  of  our  lives,  we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits  that  they  feel  in  accordance  with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.   Our   erotic   knowledge   empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning  within  our  lives.  And  this  is  a  grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.“\\
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized,  those  which  do  not  enhance  our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear  of  our  desires  keeps  them  suspect  and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth  is  to  give  it  strength  beyond  endurance.The  fear  that  we  cannot  grow  beyond  whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally  defined,  and  leads  us  to  accept  many facets of our oppression as women.\\
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But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us,  then  we  begin  to  be  responsible  to  ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize  our  deepest  feelings,  we  begin  to give  up,  of  necessity,  being  satisfied  with  suffering  and  self-negation,  and  with  the  numb-ness  which  so  often  seems  like  their  only alternative  in  our  society.  Our  acts  against oppression  become  integral  with  self,  motivated and empowered from within. 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.\\

"For  the  erotic  is  not  a  question  only  of  what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we  can  feel  in  the  doing.  Once  we  know  the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense  of  satisfaction  and  completion,  we  can then observe which of our various life endeavors brings us closest to that fullness."\\
https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf