Jewelle Gomez // Posts published by Jewelle Gomez
Michael Sam and the Meaning of Masculinity
If an out gay man can be in a football locker room the question isn’t: should the guys hide their junk—the real question is what is masculinity? How much of that destructive, artificial construction will we continue to abide by? Men who work in jobs that depend heavily on the myths of masculinity are always […]
Pratibha Parmar’s Film ‘Beauty in Truth’
Pratibha Parmar’s new documentary about Alice Walker opens with visuals from the rural, poor South of her birth. The tattered shacks, frayed and proud people are not what we (non-Southerners) associate with the 20th century. The film and those images remind us that Walker is one of the most phenomenal literary figures in that 20th […]
Sandra Bullock Gets Fetal in ‘Gravity’
Sometimes movie fans can be a big disappointment. I thoroughly enjoyed the film “Gravity†with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney for a lot of reasons: likeable stars, great visuals (especially a truly toned Bullock in her astronaut underwear), a tension-filled story and most importantly a moving emotional evolution for a female character. Most of the […]
Shedding Couture
Females go through life shedding our clothes, ecdysiasts or not. We add and subtract clothes usually based on the vagaries of the male-dominated design industry, which set the standards for the images we absorb through television and films. These ‘ideals’ are then indiscriminately reinforced by our family and friends. And that is not to mention […]
Care To Speculate?
Apparently the clitoris was a scientific mystery until recently…or at least this post I found on FB says so: until-2009-the-human-clitoris-was-an-absolute-mystery. I guess it shouldn’t really be a surprise since much knowledge held by the western medical establishment can be parochial at best and misogynist in general. How we—women and men and those along that spectrum—are […]
Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?
I recently went to hear a conversation between feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Letty Cotten Pogrebin and felt lucky that they were still around to reflect on from whence we’ve come. Both in their seventies, have survived cancer and were discussing how to care for loved ones who are ill without becoming a pain in […]
Janis Ian is Coming to Town!
When Janis Ian’s hit record, “Society’s Child,†hit the airwaves in the late 1960s it was like a shock wave. A young woman was singing out loud about an interracial romance between two teens that’s doomed because of the bigotry around them. At the height of the Civil Rights movement the song was a voice […]
The Central Park Five
Like most women living in urban areas I live with an unconscious (usually) anxiety about rape. In 1989 in NYC the crime rate was horrendous; notonly did the ‘city never sleep’ muggers and rapists seemed to work on perpetual overtime. Women looked over our shoulders just going down to get the mail. When a young […]
Call the Midwife!
Late in her life Jennifer Lee Worth wrote three books about her life as a midwife/nurse in the 1950s in London’s poverty ravaged East End. The books, “Call the Midwife,†“Shadows of the Workhouse†and “Farewell to The East End†are a kind of 20th century mirror of the conditions written about by Charles Dickens. […]
Hilary Swank Kicks Ass!
Beginning with the film Boys Don’t Cry actor Hilary Swank has continued to play characters who won’t settle for living half a life; people who risk everything to be full human beings. The Brandon Teena role, based on a true and tragic story of a young woman who lived as a boy, represented a major […]
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