small axe 24 • October 2007 • p 139–153 • ISSN 0799-0537 Rethinking Interdisciplinarity: Meditations on the Sacred Possibilities of an Erotic Feminist Pedagogy Michelle Rowley AbstrAct: In this paper I examine Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing in order to consider the interdisciplinary synergies that might be realized through a practice of knowledge production which bridges the metaphysical and the material. While the text encourages us to pursue the Sacred in our various academic and activist locations, I build on this deployment of the Sacred to argue for a feminist pedagogy of the erotic as a form of liberatory politics within Women’s Studies. Tere is an inevitability (which is not the same as passivity) in this movement toward wholeness, this work of the spirit and the journey of the Soul in its vocation to reunite us with the erotic and the Divine. Whether we want it or not it will occur. —M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing On 6 May 1979, Audre Lorde wrote a letter to Mary Daly to convey some of her concerns about what she saw as the Eurocentric and deracinating efects of Daly’s Gyn/Ecology.1 Receiv- ing no reply, Lorde published this letter, which we now know as “An Open Letter to Mary Daly.”2 In this letter, Lorde critiqued Daly for her erasure of non-western cosmologies, and Mary Daly, 1. Gyn/ecology: Te Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978; reprint, with a new intergalactic introduction by the author, Boston: Beacon Press, 1990). Audre Lorde, “An Open Letter to Mary Daly” in 2. Sister/Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Freedom, California: Te Crossing Press, 1984), 68–71. Small Axe Published by Duke University Press