Despite our title “graphic recorder,” (which is really, so unsexy, guys, can we talk about this after the show...), I am a hundred percent convinced that our work is in service to the erotic; for the parts of the whole that are longing for each other, we create visual pathways of reconnection. I love this topic and there are a hundred reasons why I love this session, and there’s so much joy and magic in this conversation: Holden Cession reminds us that the erotic is an ancient practice. Arielle Tonkin says our bodies both remind us how to be sensitive to thresholds and dare us to let go of control. Guangping Chu invites us to ask how we can be intentional about cultivating the qualities of a cultural body. We talk about mothering and queerness and the primordial ooze. We quote audre lorde’s Uses of the Erotic and feel for the postures of the cultural soma of “the movement,” noticing where there’s rigidity and wondering what queering and eroticizing our interactions might do to soften some of those edges. We speak to our spiritual traditions of touching the ecstatic divine and offer small ways to allow in the life-force energy that wants to animate us. When I say enjoy, I do mean enjoy.
