sub-section: the politics of healing towards pleasure

feeling from within +

generative somatics

"somatics is a practice-able theory of change that can move us toward individual, community and collective liberation. somatics works through the body, engaging us in our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision and action."274

2. healing sex

"in physical connections, i was able to stay more present. i learned that i had a no, a visceral, clear "hell no. if i listened to the no, if i honored it and set boundaries, it made more room for my yes."276

black woman wildness, by juanauda petrus +

Imagination Blueprint, Liberation Technologies: A Conversation with Free Black Dirt ++

beyond trans desire, by micha cardenas +

2. Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs

Trans Desire explores the ramifications of using desire as the basis for contemporary political movements rooted in a struggle for autonomy, from the perspective of a transgender person about to begin hormone replacement therapy. It examines the affinities between psychoanalytic theories of desire, queer theory and biopolitics,using the work of theorists including Avital Ronell, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler.

pleasure after childhood sexual abuse, by amita swadhin +

Flowers in the Attic

Written by V.C. Andrews, the Dollanganger series is a gothic horror and family saga spinning a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions. The first book in the series, Flower in the Attic, is a worldwide best-seller that has been adapted twice for television.V.C. Andrews died in 1986 and didn’t finish the 5th book in the series, Garden of Shadows. The book was completed by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman, who wrote all the sequels and prequels since.

fuck cancer, a conversation with alana devich cyril +

timequake audiobook

According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade - for good or ill - a second time.
As a character in and a brilliant chronicler of this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he's lived it and observed it for more than 70 years.

care as pleasure, by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha +

DIS2018: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice?" ++

The Disability and Intersectionality Summit 2018 National conference (DIS2018) took place on Saturday October 13th at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. This is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author reading and discussion of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice The filming, captioning, video edits and production of all the presentations for DIS 2018 was made possible by MIT Video Productions. We would like to thank MIT Audio Visual Services, MIT Campus Activities Complex, MIT Disability ERG, and MIT Human Resources for their support, coordination, and sponsorship of DIS2018.