AFR 387
Love is Lifeforce: June Jordan's Living Room Spring 2024
Division II
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This course is an immersive look at Black feminist poet June Jordan’s intimate anti-imperialist work Living Room. Drawing on Jordan’s belief that “poems are housework,” and her vision of “living room” as form of accountable inclusive peace on earth, this course will include weekly opportunities for reflective writing* prompted by Jordan’s work, real-time engagement with a wide range of community members beyond Williams who are inspired by Jordan’s life and poetry. The mid-term assignment will be for each student to create a “breathing room” resource or peace practice that is shareable with other students and the world and the final assignment will be to facilitate a workshop for a community of your own accountability (with 1 or more real-time participants) drawing on at least one poem from Living Room.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3995
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Weekly reflective writing, a mid-term assignment asking you to create a self-care/political warfare resource that is shareable with other students and the world, and a final assignment involving the facilitation of a workshop for a community of your own accountability (with 1 or more real-time participants). Evaluation based completely on participation in the workshops and the completion of the mid-term and final assignments.
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Preferences: Should the course be overenrolled, preference will be given to Africana Studies students.
Distributions: Division II
Attributes: AFR Theories, Methods, and Poetics

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