In Episode 4 of Binary Bashers: June Jordan wrote from the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and empire, push back against neat categories in favor of lived truth. A poet, essayist, teacher, and organizer, Jordan insisted that language was a tool for survival, intimacy, and resistance. Her work braided the personal and the political, honoring Black life, bisexuality, and global solidarity at a moment when such intersections were often erased.

This episode translates Jordan through her archives and poems, attending to how she named injustice without surrendering joy, and how she imagined freedom as something practiced daily, in classrooms, streets, and relationships. June Jordan’s voice remains urgent, clear-eyed, uncompromising, and fiercely humane.

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