Desi[r]evolution

Darkdaughta says on her website that she is accepting ongoing submissions for a possible book called desi[r]evolution. While i dunno that i have enough 'life experience' to make any sort of intelligible contribution, and while i'm not sure that i would want to be that exposed at this point in my life (by exposed i mean be in a book about desire. i've also been looking, though, at robyn ochs' call for writing), i think the questions she poses are interesting. i think they're really forward thinking. i wanted to repost them here so that i could kind of think about them as i begin this process of living out my twenties. maybe i'll make an effort to make a post answering one of the questions every sunday (starting next week. i need time to think on them.) here's what i got from the site:

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desi[r]evolution : black women talk race, gender, colonization and sexual politics.

so, i'm wonderin'...
are black gyals 'free' yet?

this is me askin':
how [sexually] 'free' are we plannin' on allowing ourselves to be?

for that matter, how sexually 'free' is it possible for us to really be?

what is free dom when we can't be sure how much of our relationship to sex is reaction as opposed to action ?

a few hundred years after the middle passage - our collective racial/social/spiritual/physical/sexual/familial colonization experience/forced dance with domination, can any of us tell the difference?

in a racist, consumerism-driven, sexually conflicted yet still sex-negative world, is it really even possible for there to be a descernable difference?

seein' as the whole dyam world defines us as pussy for sale, how much [if any] of their mess can we clear out of our minds?
what sorts of conscious, intentional sexualities are we actually planning on pursuing, embracing, claiming?

how does does the middle class conservative hetero-patriarchy still so dominant in our homes/lives/communities effect the way[s] we do/talk/experience sex?

is one lover or partner really enuff?
why does it have to be?

do you come from a space/place where a fully, openly sexual woman, clear about her needs and desires, open about her appetites needs to fear for her safety and her career? or are you from a space/place where a woman is expected to by learning and growing, naming and exploring what it means to be female, adult and ripe with the power of her erotic?

how does an experience of sexual abuse, rape, physical trauma impact on your understanding of your body, it's functions, your desires and your erotic?

why do these sorts of questions bring up so many other questions related to morality and christianity, to the sacred and the profane, to the reckless and the insane?

how are my sistren managing, sexin' in this post-emancipation 'freedom' time? is the development and liberation of our sexual selves keeping pace with our struggles to decolonize our spirits, minds, families and communities?

does a revolutionary sister still have to keep her thighs clenched in order to be seen as a worthy ally and to fight tha good fight or does she just need to be a docile wife/partner, shadow behind every/any man and baby machine for the patriarchally dominated nation?