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Feminist Review (1989) 31, 55–65. doi:10.1057/fr.1989.6
Other Kinds of Dreams
June Jordan was born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn. She is the author of several award-winning books which include six volumes of poetry and two collections of political essays. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Essence magazine and elsewhere. She currently teaches at SUNY (Stony Brook) and lives in Brooklyn. Forthcoming are two collections of her work: Lyrical Campaigns: Selected Poems and Moving Towards Home: Selected Essays to be published in spring 1989 by Virago.
Pratibha Parmar is a writer, film-maker and political activist. She has co-edited several books including The Empire Strikes Back (Hutchinson, 1982), 'Many Voices, One Chant: Black Feminist Perspectives' Feminist Review No. 17, 1984, Through the Break: Women in Personal Struggle (Sheba, 1987) and Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women (Sheba, 1988). Her videos include Emergence (1986), Reframing AIDS (1988), Sari Red (1988). She has written for Marxism Today, Women's Review, City Limits, Spare Rib, Ten: 8 (photographic magazine) and other periodicals and journals.
I would like to thank Shaheen Haque, Claudette Williams, Shaila Shah, Sona Osman, Vron Ware, Paul Gilroy and Issac Julien for their support, friendship and hours of useful discussions and Usha Brown for her timely encouragement. My special thanks to June Jordan for her friendship and inspiration.
Pratibha Parmar
