June Jordan, born on this day in 1936, was a queer Jamaican-American author, feminist, and educator whose works include Some of Us Did Not Die and Report From the Bahamas. “Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
In her writing, Jordan explores issues of gender, race, capitalism, privilege, immigration, and representation. Jordan was passionate about using Black English in both her writing and her classroom, teaching her students to treat Black English as its own language and as an important outlet for expressing Black culture.
As a professor at Berkeley, Jordan founded the “Poetry for the People” program in 1991. Its aim was to inspire and empower students to use poetry as a means of artistic expression.
Although not widely recognized when first published in 1982, Jordan’s essay “Report from the Bahamas”, has since become an important work in gender studies, sociology, and anthropology.
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
- June Jordan
June Jordan - Poetry foundation
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Yet another dub for the sunscreen gang.
Tragically, I am also a known sunscreen avoider.
goes outside for the first time in god knows how many years wearing short sleeved anything voluntarily
immediately burnt to shit for my crimes against eggdom
How well does that work? I’m worried about relying it and then getting cancer rayed anyway. Frankly in a different cultural situation I would have made a call to the Sahel years ago and asked if they had desert robes in my size.
Love to have sensory issues that put me at increased risk of skin problems every summer.
