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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I have the house to myself for ten days, and I have never spent more time naked than I have recently. Nudism is cool
Humidity is high enough there's an emergency alert and my cat is shedding my clothes are what's stopping me from being coated in fur rn
your clothes may be stopping you from being coated in fur, but you are instead coated in clothes.
Nakedness is next to godliness.
Me going green with envy rn.
I've got a thin bathrobe that I wear when I have to leave my room but otherwise when it's as hot as it is right now it's nudity all the way
i have some clothes lying around in case i need to answer the door but aside from that im naked in my house and garden. neighbours will see me if they look but i dont care about that
Hell yeah, this is why I never wanna live with housemates again, mostly.
LET ME WALK NAKED FROM MY ROOM TO THE FRIDGE AT 2AM SO I CAN STAND IN FRONT OF THE OPEN DOOR EATING LIL SNACKS WITHOUT PRYING EYES OR JUDGMENT