Desire is a very powerful gift from the Divine that we each possess, but it has long been vilified as shameful and dangerous. In the legacy of Audre Lorde’s work on the Power of the Erotic, Reverend Sex (aka Rev. Alba Onofrio) introduces the Gospel of the Erotic as a way to facilitate deep connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the Divine through practices of Spiritual Discipline.
The Erotic is deeply threatening to systems of domination that seek to control our bodies through guilt and shame, through coercion and violence. So how do we name and claim our desires in the face of spiritual domination and build our practice of noncompliance to evil? Let’s find out together.
Note: This space is open to everyone, but it centers the experiences of Queer and Trans People and People of Color.