5 things we learned at the Bodies of Power panel

Hosted by Dazed’s Kara Shanahan, the Bodies of Power panel used Audre Lorde’s ‘The Uses of the Erotic’ to discuss the state of eroticism today

5 things we learned at the Bodies of Power panel
Photography Olivia Brissett

“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognised feeling,” writes Audre Lorde in her infamous 1978 lecture-turned-essay, “The Uses of the Erotic”. Dazed editorial intern Kara Shanahan was first introduced to Lorde’s essay by writer andhellip;

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