Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis with Kay Ulanday Barrett
Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
Kay Ulanday Barrett describes June Jordan’s legacy and their mission as “a transgender brown poet and educator to imagine beyond hazardous constraints of binaries.”
Writer and educator Bill Zavatsky discusses June Jordan’s “For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” and the legacy of both poets.
Poet, musician & educator Taiyo Na explores June Jordan’s legacy, touching on basketball, activist songwriting & teaching as “an act of creating sanctuary.”
Suzanne Gardinier discusses how June Jordan’s radical teaching and writing resisted divisions, formed alliances, and spoke to urgent political realities of the time.
Inspired by June Jordan, Donna Masini calls for the integration of writing with activism, personal life, and the “moral imagination.”