• $1,000

Love is Lifeforce Daily Practice

  • Course
  • 6 Lessons

This is a 5 day immersion in the influences and reprecussions of June Jordan's 1977 declaration that "love is lifeforce" in her talk "The Creative Spirit." This is an opportunity for you to cultivate a one on one relationship with this text which will be the foundation of everything we do during this semester-long experience.

Contents

Day 1: Love is Lifeforce

In this section you will make your overall dedication and engage a Black Feminist Breathing Meditation in honor of June Jordan.

Love is Lifeforce Meditation
  • 12 mins
  • 21.3 MB

Day 2: The Creative Spirit

In this section you will engage journal prompts based on June Jordan's 1977 talk "The Creative Spirit and Children's Literature.

Journal Prompts
  • 8.57 MB

Day 3: Lilies of the Field

In this section we will look at the biblical reference to "the lilies of the field" that June Jordan references in her essay and respond to some journal prompts.

Consider the lilies... Journal Prompts
    The Lilies of the Field: June Jordan's Biblical Reference
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    Day 4: Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer

    In this section we will read a poem by June Jordan's mentor, the great Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and respond to some journal prompts.

    Journal Prompts
    • 32.2 KB

    Day 5: Field Theories

    In this section we will think about generations of mentorship and the idea of a field in the sense of quantum physics.

    Samiya Bashir's Field Theories epigraph
    • 148 KB