Love Quote by June Jordan

Jordan doesn’t plead for tolerance; she asserts jurisdiction. By defining bisexuality as “free,” she yanks the conversation away from labels-as-spectacle and plants it where she’s always been most dangerous: in the language of rights, self-determination, and plainspoken moral logic. The line “as likely…as” is doing quiet demolition work. It refuses the cultural demand to pick a side, to produce a neat narrative arc, to become legible on someone else’s terms. Desire, here, isn’t a confession. It’s evidence.

The rhetorical pivot - “and what about that?” - is classic Jordan: a Bronx-and-black-arts impatience with policing disguised as curiosity. She’s not asking permission; she’s calling the bluff of anyone who treats bisexuality as indecision, performance, or threat. Then she tightens the screw with a final question: “Isn’t that what freedom implies?” It’s a trap door. If you claim to believe in freedom as an American virtue or a progressive slogan, you’ve just agreed with her. If you object to her desire, you’ve exposed that your “freedom” has conditions.

Context matters: Jordan wrote from a life steeped in intersecting fights - race, feminism, imperialism, sexuality - and she understood how “acceptance” often functions as a softer kind of control. This quote isn’t identity as branding; it’s identity as a political claim. She’s insisting that the private life is not a special exception to liberty but one of its hardest tests.