This book is the third one I’ve worked on that roots back into Butler’s work. The next person of significance is Octavia Butler. I want to honor her as the first person in my personal pleasure lineage. She kept finding lovers, kept finding ways to feel good as a southern Black hotel maid. She didn’t give up on sex or love, even though it was a struggle for her. As I get older, I realize how sexually liberated she was for her time. I thought she was beautiful, fly, smelled good, felt soft. I was never sure about how to think of my grandmother growing up. She drank and kept a freezer full of pops that all the neighborhood kids could visit. She raised the children with the help of her family. I am the granddaughter of a woman who had seven children with a few men. the late Kevin Estrada, as a blessing to the children of Elizabeth Mendez Berry Section one: Who Taught You to Feel Good?
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