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‘Creating justice between us’: Audre Lorde’s theory of the erotic as coalitional politics in the Women’s Movement

DOI: 10.1177/1464700117742870

Keywords: Black feminism,black lesbians,black women’s sexuality,interracial sex,lesbians

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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

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