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A self refused erasure, and the refusal outlived the people who demanded it. Quentin Crisp made his existence the argument decades before it was survivable. June Jordan made the personal a weapon. Thom Gunn insisted joy and grief share a stanza. Say their names like they matter.
https://twp.ai/4hqgeS
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Autonomies: **“this is not a golden calf”**
https://autonomies.org/2026/05/this-is-not-a-golden-calf/
Choose your leaderswith wisdom and forethought. To be led by a cowardis to be controlledby all that the coward fears. To be led by a foolis to be ledby the opportunistswho control the fool. To be led by a thiefis … Continue reading →
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June Jordan, Too Black, and Insurgent Grammars
#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #JaredBall #JuneJordan #EricaEdwards #TooBlack
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Today's poem:
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- by June Jordanhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/764023527202521088/in-memoriam-martin-luther-king-jr?source=share
#MartinLutherKing #CivilRights #violence #hate #history #JuneJordan #change #continuity #assassination #remembrance
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new housesit, new bookpile! #MulkRajAnand #Untouchable, Portlander #LidiaYuknavich, old favs #Kenko #EssaysInIdleness & #Chomei's #Hojoki, @Ben_Aaronovitch's #MidnightRiot (#RiversOfLondon), #JuneJordan, @avantgame's #Imaginable, #Bachelard's #PoeticsOfSpace etc.
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“Each conversation with her unveiled…the arc of purpose and love that lives at the center of a life worth living.” A beautiful glimpse into the great poet June Jordan from one of her students. A wonderful way to start the day.
#poetry #cancer #medicine #JuneJordan #Palestinian #liberation #purpose #beauty #love #teaching #selfcare #caring #solidarity #BlackPoetry #BlackPoet
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/02/13/june-jordan-legacy
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (1975), by Dan Georgakas & Marvin Surkin: black liberation, revolutionary, & labor classic. Print https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-dying. reminds me of: Some of Us Did Not Die, essays by #JuneJordan, 2002: https://books.google.com/books/about/Some_of_Us_Did_Not_Die.html?id=4pPHXQ7i2PEC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false c/@JamillaMohamud #DanGeorgakas #Detroit
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“The whole world will become a home to all of us, or none of us can hope to live on it, peacefully. But much of the American dream mistakenly supposes that, like a tree, we will grow & flourish, standing in one place"
—#JuneJordan "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams"
