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Flip the Script: Sensual Voices
Day Fifty-two
Sensual Voices
“The basic belief of feminism is not that women are right, and men are wrong; It is merely that women are people and therefore their voices matter, their values matter and their stories matter. It’s time for women to tell their versions of what it means to be fully human. It is time for men to respect those insights and it is time for all of us to integrate them into a new story of power.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Marie Ek Lipanovska and I collaborated on a book project in 2014–2015 called Sensual Voices: True Stories by Women Exploring Desire and Connection with twelve women from Sweden and eight women from the United States. From the very beginning, Marie and I saw the conversation about sensual voices stories from different perspectives. That was the perfect beginning to help us listen to each woman’s unique experience and understand why it was hard to enroll women into a conversation about sexuality, sensuality, and desire. These topics were still taboo and the idea of exposing themselves in a story that would be published in a book stopped them from signing up. There was desire to participate and there was fear.
We finally found twenty women (or they found us) and gathered in a secret Facebook group to stoke…
