1. What complex challenges and inspired insights about sexuality and gender do queer and trans* women of color uniquely experience and offer? Consider how matters of race, biological family relations, class/classism, community, sexual desire, histories of colonization, citizenship/migration, politics of health care, safety, homelessness, gender non-normativity, cissexism, and/or heterosexism matter to these authors/activists.
2. Consider Lorde’s notion of the erotic and its difference from dominant understandings of sexuality. How does Lorde shift our understanding of women of color’s sexuality through her notion of “the erotic as a source of power”?1. What complex challenges and inspired insights about sexuality and gender do queer and trans* women of color uniquely experience and offer? Consider how matters of race, biological family relations, class/classism, community, sexual desire, histories of colonization, citizenship/migration, politics of health care, safety, homelessness, gender non-normativity, cissexism, and/or heterosexism matter to these authors/activists.
2. Consider Lorde’s notion of the erotic and its difference from dominant understandings of sexuality. How does Lorde shift our understanding of women of color’s sexuality through her notion of “the erotic as a source of power”?
