%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Creating justice between us¡¯: Audre Lorde¡¯s theory of the erotic as coalitional politics in the Women¡¯s Movement
%A SaraEllen Strongman
%J Feminist Theory
%@ 1741-2773
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1464700117742870
%X This article asks how interracial sex and/or sexual attraction might be an integral part of cross-racial feminist work. Focusing on the work of black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, I argue that for some black women sex and intimate relationships with white women during the Women¡¯s Movement were an important part of their survival and their feminist and anti-racist praxis. Drawing on recent black feminist scholarship, I read Lorde¡¯s work against the grain of the anti-pornography feminist movement contemporaneous with her career and suggest that sex with white women was often a productive, enriching and necessary experience for her as she worked to build cross-racial political alliances
%K Black feminism
%K black lesbians
%K black women¡¯s sexuality
%K interracial sex
%K lesbians
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464700117742870