GWS Celebrates June Jordan

This week, the departments of Gender & Women's Studies and African American & African Diaspora Studies, are celebrating the legacies of June Jordan.

• February 24: Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience
• February 25: This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's Legacy
• February 26: June Jordan's Poetry for the People: Legacies and Futures

GWS is proud and honored to have had June Jordan as a faculty member (1990-1995). During Professor Jordan's time in the department and with Berkeley, our students benefited immensely from her courses and from the events that she organized and in which she participated.

HIGHLIGHT:
Students lucky enough to be here at the time could have taken June Jordan's "Coming Into the World Female" Women's Studies course:

• Coming Into the World Female

  Through cross cultural readings of fiction, autobiographies, and poems, we will identify and then examine important problematic commonalities of experience specific to the female.

LEARN MORE ABOUT JUNE JORDAN AT UC BERKELEY:

June Jordan - The Intimate Face of Universal Struggle (article from the African American Studies 40th Anniversary Publication. Posted with permission of the author, Charisse Burden-Stelly)

The UC Berkeley Library has a wonderful story on "Constellations of Black feminism in UC Berkeley's Archives" that features June Jordan.