June Jordan, born on this day in 1936, was a queer Jamaican-American author, feminist, and educator whose works include Some of Us Did Not Die and Report From the Bahamas. "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
In her writing, Jordan explores issues of gender, race, capitalism, privilege, immigration, and representation. Jordan was passionate about using Black English in both her writing and her classroom, teaching her students to treat Black English as its own language and as an important outlet for expressing Black culture.
As a professor at Berkeley, Jordan founded the "Poetry for the People" program in 1991. Its aim was to inspire and empower students to use poetry as a means of artistic expression.
Although not widely recognized when first published in 1982, Jordan's essay "Report from the Bahamas", has since become an important work in gender studies, sociology, and anthropology.
"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
- June Jordan
June Jordan - Poetry foundation
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Gonna take a full week off work next week, because i have 33 days stocked up and i need to get rid of some. Gonna lock in and get my game finished, as well as do a bunch of chores around the house like installing ceiling fans and putting up curtains. Gonna feel great to get all of it done
relatedly, I try to only work on one main programming project at a time, otherwise I will always drop projects to work on something new and fun. So i want to finish up the game first before I'm onto something new. I've been workshopping a new idea in my head of an open-source forum software with a built-in torrent client (via WebTorrent) where all the content is downloaded/uploaded p2p style, rather than having to upload content to the sketchy/slow upload sites. What do yall think of that?
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but how are the peers allocated, in browser caches?
Not 100% sure, based on the git repo https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent. But i'd like to make it super seamless to download/upload content from users
ah seems instant.io can make instant links, but that won't make more peers (maybe via rss feed torrent thingy to let it self update
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