Glittt.

"Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, hearkening to its deepest rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is dancing, building a bookcase, writing a poem, examining an idea."

—

Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Paper delivered at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August 25, 1978.

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(Notes: 11)

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October 5, 2011

vintagesevensisters:

“Miss Eleanor Graves, of Albany, N.Y., plays the title role in the ‘Peter Pan’ May pageant of Mt. Holyoke College, on May 9, and Miss Sylvia Smith, of Syracuse, N.Y., as ‘Tinker Bell’ dances to the lilting tones of the magic reeds.”

(Mt. Holyoke)

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(Notes: 56)

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October 5, 2011

vintagesevensisters:

“The students of Mount Holyoke College who have been doing farmers’ aid work for two years or more have now branched out on their own. They have organized their own land army and will raise their own crops on a nine-acre plot.”

(Mount Holyoke College Postcard Collection)

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(Notes: 50)

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September 11, 2011