1. Feminism and Poetry
A Literary Analysis of June Jordan’s Revolutionary Works
by Phanith Sovann

2. June Jordan
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Born in Harlem New York on July 1936
Poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, educator, activist, biographer
Best known for her poetry and essays

3. Feminist theories find expression in June Jordan’s poetry Outline:
Thesis:
Feminist theories find expression in June Jordan’s poetry
Outline:
Introduction
I. June Jordan’s life
II. Black Feminist theory in Jordan’s poetry
A. “Poem about my rights”
III. Critical Race Theory in Jordan’s poetry
IV. Conclusion

4. “Poem about my Rights”
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear/ my head about this poem about why I can’t/ go out without changing my clothes my shoes / my body posture my gender identity my age/ my status as a woman alone in the evening/ alone on the streets/alone not being the point/ the point being that I can’t do what I want / to do with my own body because I am the wrong / sex the wrong age the wrong skin and   

5. Feminism in two different Texts
“Poem about my Rights”
“A Black Feminist Statement”
June Jordan
A poem
Subjective experience
Use of “my” and “I”
Combahee River Collective
A statement
Collective conscience
Use of “we”

6. Conclusion: No one method is better than the other
One may be preferable than the other according to audience and circumstance
Able to reach a wider and broader audience if we convey our messages through different means