Agrita Dandriyal on reclaiming the liberatory power of the erotic
“Feeling good is freedom. Building courage to live our lives on the principles of love, pleasure and joy is the purest, most impactful way to resist systems of oppression. No matter how hard the systems we live under attempt to fragment the self and the collective so we are easier to control, we will continue to make love with everything, creating spaces of joy and hope in the chaos, because life is so worth living for. ”
As the new year begins with the crumbling of hope for a stable future, how can we tap into the restorative power of the erotic to regenerate our capacities to make change and attain collective liberation from a place of deep pleasure and joy?
In our first episode of 2026, join host Agrita in exploring the ways in which we can reclaim the erotic as power and political resistance in the new year, reconnecting with the feminine life-force within all our bodies to engage in radical pleasure-making that can help us dismantle systems of oppression, at the macro-level but also at the level of the self. Inspired from the work of Audre Lorde, bell hooks, adrienne marie brown, Minna Salami and others, this episode discusses everything from the weaponisation of the erotic to limit our capacities to advocate for change to pleasure self-determination and building pleasure-positive communities, workspaces and lives. Feeling good is freedom, so let’s feel good together this year and beyond.
What will be covered:
Re-rooting the erotic in the feminine, moving away from the pornographic paradigm in the dominant culture that separates the erotic from the spiritual
Weaponisation of the erotic to cut women off its power
Issues around pornography’s narrative that pleasure is solely crafted for consumption of others, deepened by technology
Tapping into our roles as pleasure activists
Engaging in political resistance because it “feels right for us”
Erotic aliveness fuelling political movements and building our capacities to engage in resistance
Pleasure should be self-determined, especially by those impacted by generational oppression
Transforming collective fear to collective action through the erotic
Love and self-care as political resistance
Self-sufficiency in satisfying our erotic needs for ourselves
First erotic awakenings and learnings as children shaping the relationship we have with pleasure as adults
Tapping into our erotic guides that build on the work of our ancestors to tend to the erotic needs of new times
Creating pleasure-centric relationships and spaces that allow for erotic exchanges and alignment of pleasure rituals
Episode resources
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Resistance - Audre Lorde
Pleasure Activism – Politics of Feeling Good – adrienne marie brown
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone - Minna Salami
all about love - bell hooks
The erotic as power - The Feminine Prose substack
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Mind Full of Everything is a podcast calling for the radical healing of the self and community to outgrow the broken dominant culture of radical individualism and disconnection from our place as interdependent beings, so that we can collectively re-envision a safer, healthier and equitable world. Each episode takes a healing-centric approach to explore the embodied ways in which we can collectively restore and transform our journeys as stewards of community and earth through conversations with writers, researchers, coaches and educators, as well as reflection episodes with the host Agrita Dandriyal on her journey navigating the world as a deeply conscious, culturally-rooted and relational being. Learn more here.
