Two Erotic Lessons I Learned from My Mother (and Other Women Who Nourished Me)

Abstract

Abstract:This piece employs Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde's method of bio-mythography to narrate not a Black sexual "coming out" but rather a "coming into" story. Waffling between memoir and myth, the author theorizes Black queer sexual subject formation as an embodied, contingent, and provisional process, structured by geopolitics, anti-Blackness, socioeconomic and parental status, among other structural and intimate forces.