This Unruly Witness

June Jordan's Legacy

Author: Lauren Muller, Becky Thompson, Dominique C. Hill and Durell M. Callier

Hardcover

Pre order release date
11th November 2025

Pre Order

$92.00

Or pay later with

Free 30 day returns Secure transaction

Pre order release date
11th November 2025

Check delivery options

Hardcover

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Description

A collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist.

was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that "we are the ones we have been waiting for." Celebrating the life and legacy of the poet activist June Jordan, this collection illuminates why we need Jordan more than ever.

Featuring an introduction by alexis pauline gumbs, an afterword from Imani Perry, essays, poems, letters, and interviews from internationally acclaimed poets and thinkers such as Angela Davis, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Afaa M. Weaver, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Jordan's former students.

About the Author

Becky Thompson is a scholar, poet, activist, and author of poetry collections To Speak in Salt and Zero Is the Whole I Fall into at Night.

Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women.

, an assistant professor of women's studies at Colgate University, is a qualitative researcher and body archivist studying Black girlhood and Black queer resistance.

is an artist-scholar who documents the lived experiences of Black youth and their communities, examining how Black art and creative practices subvert and reimagine Black life in the face of violence.