April 2012
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Nectar,at a fundamental level, the thing the bee desires, is a bribe, plain and...
– E. Readicker-Henderson, A Short History of the Honey Bee
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Notes from Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic..."
“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can...
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Excerpts from Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the...
“…I have to learn alone / to turn my body without force / in the deep element…
I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail…
the thing I came for: / the wreck and not the story of the wreck / the thing itself and not the myth…
This is the place. / And I am...
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How would human beings ever have made love to each other, without honey and bees...
– Bee Wilson, The Hive
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