Marina Magloire
@m_myglory
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Archival crate digger, forest fairy, 3rd world feminist
between starshine and clay
Joined August 2020
In the aftermath of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, June Jordan and Audre Lorde had a falling out over the issue of Zionism. I've traced it across three archives, and it may be the most important story I've ever told. Read it, but more importantly, read June Jordan.
"When both were participating in an anti-apartheid poetry reading in 1986, June Jordan approached Adrienne Rich and said, 'I completely and absolutely detest your views on Israel and I love you.'" @m_myglory examines a Black feminist falling-out.
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I hope people sit in discomfort with this letter. Using June to cancel anyone else is a distraction. For June, every American is canceled, including herself. The point is: where do we/you/I go from there? Where do we go when we assume our responsibility to the Palestinian people?
In 1982, the poet June Jordan wrote an open letter denouncing the Zionism of her peers—especially Adrienne Rich. Rescued from the archives of Audre Lorde, who, along with a number of her peers, conspired to silence Jordan, the letter can finally be read in its entirety here.
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RT @VenusRoots: spoke to my dear friend and comrade @m_myglory on the relationship between the two iconic Black feminists, June Jordan & Au…
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How can I write about June Jordan trying to radicalize her friends around Palestine without shouting out the friends that radicalized me: @zainaalsous @sujasawafta @bobuqsayed. It's like June says: "All of us and me by myself: we're on." Quote is from her foreword to Civil Wars.
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@AngelicaJWrites Thanks Angelica! Glad you got to see some of the archival sources in the flesh
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@MsSapph Thank you so much for posting this! It's a beautiful oral history lesson that further confirms the level of suppression June faced from her peers
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RT @wawog_now: June Jordan is among many radical intellectuals blacklisted by the @nytimes for her principled anti-Zionism. If you say "fre…
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RT @wawog_now: Jordan's uncompromising commitment to Palestine is the subject of an instructive essay by Marina Magloire (@m_myglory), pub…
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My book is out this week from UNC Press! If you're interested in Black women writers, archives, and (of course) magic, please give it a read 🔮✨
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My latest piece, out today in @Harpers, is a love letter to a New Orleans cultural tradition: black-owned house museums. In tribute to the decades of love and labor of the New Orleans elders who make the city tick, and to all those who seek to follow in their footsteps. ✊🏿
"For a generation of black elders, these house museums are an antidote to a society that has told them in no uncertain terms that their lives and deaths do not matter.”
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I'm still spreading the gospel of Lucille, this time with a review of her reissued memoir, Generations:
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RT @OlufemiOTaiwo: the older I get, the less often I see criticisms of terms like "Global South" and "Third World" as harmless pedantic poi…
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