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#1 I'm going to read you a story by Octavia Butler, then we're going to talk about how the power of the erotic makes us give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation.

#2 Octavia Butler's story about giving up and being satisfied with suffering and self-negation is a myth. We're going to prove it to you. -> I began to make decisions about whether I wanted to do things in my life and in the movements I was part of by checking for my orgasmic yes. I began to faciliate these movements for social and environmental transformation, with a focus on Black liberation.

#3 I learned to check for my orgasmic yes, and in doing so, I began to faciliate social and environmental transformation movements with a focus on Black liberation.