BLOOD OF AURORA

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solo episode with dori– her the nude self portrait creating process, the question: “is there any way to escape the male gaze?” tocka, virginia woolf’s “wedge-shaped core of darkness," womb-mystery, francesca woodman’s genius work and musings on coming home to the body.

listen up!! bodytext our women-only writers collective opens again this weekend. registration starts sept 12th at 9am pst. 33 seats only. first dibs to those on the waitlist. get on it here

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in this week's ep-- bunch of research stuff from feminist psychology, philosophy and literature-- something called mattering, the narratable self and mutual recognition, the practice my therapist gave me for locating longing in the body and working with it, why i'm starting to believe longing is evidence i'm alive rather than evidence something's wrong with me and more, amongst, answering few of your questions from my ig ask me anything

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**a porn-alternative, tinder date research, why “consensual non-consent” is the most submitted and most triggering fantasy, responsive vs. spontaneous desire and what it means for foreplay, the uprising of mommy kink, writing your desires into being. and more.

writer and founder of aurore, carly pifer and i spoke very directly. aurore is a hub of an ongoing collection of erotic writings, a major archive of hundreds of submitted fantasy stories, mostly from women. carly has quite a clear idea of what women actually desire.

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”controlled pleasure” as its own kind of freedom, the snack tin as unlabeled meditation, farmer’s markets as a way back into your body, hunger vs. craving vs. what your body is actually asking for and why “erotic aliveness” might just mean noticing :::: with anastasia aka snack tin queen– the woman and yoga teacher behind the viral tin ritual.

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Lucy shares her very first artist book titled Field Notes in the Vortex, talks about desensitization+displacement+identity, flirtation with landscape, what it means to listen to a body that isn’t yours and why the most commanding presence in the room might be the one asking you to let go.

Find her work at lucymuli.studio and on Instagram @lucy_mu_li.

.✦ ݁ BLOOD OF AURORA is our bi-weekly audio series hosted by Hungarian artist Dóri Varga, featuring raw conversations with women from the creative field on sex, motherhood, creativity, relationship and transformation. ✦ ݁˖

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In this conversation, Danielle and Dori talk about the art of identity shifting, what postpartum isolation opened up creatively, the sacred rituals she has witnessed backstage, and why she believes intensity is a green flag.

Danielle Fitzgerald is a documentary and portrait photographer, social worker, mother and the creator of Venus 8 — a long-term collaborative project documenting the humanity, multiplicity and inner lives of erotic dancers. Made over four years inside the locker rooms and late nights of the club, her work resists voyeurism entirely.

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Observing the gaze, the subconscious in creative work, writing as exposure of the self and the radical act of bringing more mother into everything.

Madeleine Morlet is a British-American photographer, writer and mother of two, whose long-term, research-led practice explores the limits of what images can hold. Her work asks hard questions about how we see and who gets to look. Introducing her recent project The Body Is Not a Thing, Madeleine found herself “being confronted by the enduring influence of the male gaze.”

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