28. Put Your Pussey On the Earth With Junauda Petrus

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Lauren has been waiting for this episode since the day this podcast was conceived. This week we’re unpacking the increasingly popular lifestyle philosophy of pleasure activism. And we have queer fantasy book writer, performance artist, and self-proclaimed soul sweetener Junauda Petrus here to let us in on the magic. This episode is a meditation on the limitless potential of Black women embracing their wild side and following their most “out there” curiosities. Our conversation starts with Junauda’s story about mending a broken heart by going to the forest and putting her bare vag on the earth. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Follow Junauda Petrus on Twitter @junaudaalma and pick up her book “The Stars and the Blackness Between Them”

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0:00.0	When I was coming up, it was very much like,
0:03.2	fuck the police, you know, a lot of police brutality
0:06.8	rallies, a lot of sort of ways that we absorbed
0:10.4	the oppression we were fighting in our bodies without any sort of consciousness.
0:16.4	I didn't know that I could be happy.
0:18.8	I didn't know that I deserved to be queer in my resistance.
0:24.3	So I think for me, pleasure activism
0:26.0	has been like, how do I reclaim a space in myself
0:29.6	that's inherently sweet and protected that gets to feel like my body belongs to me and my
0:37.8	body deserves to be pleasure. Like there's so much anxiety to being bold so how do I let the sweetness sort of take its place instead of anxiety?
0:47.0	Let sweetness be my relationship with my boldness and my dreams.
0:54.0	This is the Secret Lives of Black Women.
0:56.0	I'm Sharla.
0:57.0	And I'm Lauren.
0:58.0	And today we're talking pleasure activism.
1:01.0	I have been waiting for this episode since the day we decided to start this show.
1:06.9	What is pleasure activism?
1:08.0	So pleasure activism is, are you ready to just like be so warmed inside by this like thought?
1:15.0	So it has many facets but essentially it's the thought of sensual pleasure and
1:22.0	happiness can be an act of resistance against oppressive forces.
1:26.5	Right? Told you. So it's the thought of, you know, finding pleasure in your life like we're so bogged down and it's truly
1:36.3	when I think of the show the show actually is a form of like pleasure
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