Why an erotic writing workshop?
You may feel a desire to write about sex, yet believe that you are not a real writer (no one knows what that really means).
Or you may be a writer who feels timid about describing sex and sexuality in your work, and want a place to explore sexual expression.
Or you may have individual erotic desires that you'd like to play out on the page before playing them out in person.
Or you may simply enjoy writing about sex and desire, and want the opportunity to practice your craft.
You may be a writer who wants to try something different.
For all these reasons, and more, folks have found their way to the Raw Silk and Declaring Our Erotic (DOE) writing workshops.
In both DOE and Raw Silk: women writing desire writing groups, we write in response to exercises that bring up different aspects of our erotic, sexual and sensual selves, in a safe and confidential group of peers. This workshop is designed to leave you more confident with sexual language, erotic expression, and your own writing practice. The exercises are playful, thought-provoking, and inspiring.
I believe that much of our sexuality and erotics are manifested in language. Declaring Our Erotic writing workshops are spaces in which art is created out of the raw materials of our rich and complex inner lives and imaginings.
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I believe:
that writing has the power to affect transformation, to spell out not only how one feels now but how one wants to feel, how one believes one can feel.
that we expand in our erotic possibility when we become deeply aware of one
another's truths and desires.
that there’s a power in writing about
sex explicitly and in community, using charged and taboo
language– -- we take that charge and make it our
own electricity, utilizing it for our own ends instead of remaining subservient
to it.
that much of our sexuality and our erotics
is manifested through language–one of the
ways to alter our reactions to all the sex-negative messages we
are force-fed from birth is through practice and play with new language,
in a less-charged space than a bedroom, alone or in the
presence of others struggling and playing similarly.
that we all need safe space in which to be our
whole, complete and complex erotic selves -- to delve into the desires
that we've learned or been told don't "go with" our
particular identities.
that, finally, when we risk empowering and transforming ourselves, we transform and empower the communities we exist within–and changing our communities means that we are changing the world!
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