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the oath
By jim saliba the oath in a sunny living room near 30th and dolores, my acting teacher handed me a poem and had me read it out loud. it was “poem about my rights.” i had never heard of june jordan...
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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it all her in a black that made muscle out of these...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
By r. erica doyle I had a lover who used to roll me cigarettes. We listened to Silvio Rodriguez and the Cocteau Twins by candle light, drank mint tea and tasted each other’s mouths with the fervor of...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Wholehearted. For June Jordan. By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Editors’ Note: Since this is a special forum celebrating the life, work, and legacy of June Jordan, one of our ancestor heroines, The Feminist Wire made the editorial decision to republish Darnell L....
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June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon
By Therese Saliba I write beside the rainy sky Tonight an unexpected an American Cease-fire to the burning day that worked like war across my empty throat before I thought to try this way to say I...
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A Legacy of Resistance
By Sumaya Awad In the past decade the struggle for Palestinian liberation has grown steadily. The launch of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in 2005 birthed an international...
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Remembering June Jordan and Madonna’s ‘Borderline’
By Evelyn C. White In 1984, just before I began journalism school at Columbia University, fate delivered me to the then-Brooklyn home of June Jordan. Thanks to a mutual friend, June had graciously...
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy, the way, I imagine, planets, stars, other constellations...
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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah...
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker, incest and rape...
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