Jewelle Gomez // Posts published by Jewelle Gomez
The Best Looking Woman
I’m thinking about good looks. I mean what is good looking? What looks good to whom? How do we know when we look good? Who do we look good to? Maybe this is on my mind because Elizabeth Taylor died and she was considered one of the best looking women in movies. Even I thought […]
Harlem Vibrates with Possibility
“I used to live in the world, then we moved to Harlem.â€Â So goes the opening lines of one of the poems in Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.â€Â I saw that theatre piece more than anything else before or since. It signaled the possibility that […]
Acting is Happy Agony
Agony seemed to have been one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s personal specialties but he may have been on target about acting. The New Conservatory Theatre is doing the final casting for my play, “Waiting for Giovanni,†which explores a moment of indecision in the life of queer writer/activist James Baldwin and I’ve had the privilege of […]
Boston Bound
I visited Boston this weekend to see some old friends. There was a brief moment when I hoped for snow, just for old times sake, but realized I really needed to be back at work on Monday and even if we got snowed in the past was totally gone. We drove though my old neighborhood, […]
Every Cookie Has a Mission…
So say the Girl Scouts. (Full disclosure: I was not a Girl Scout; I was a Camp Fire Girl.) They didn’t have Girl Scout troops in my economically forgotten neighborhood in Boston in the 1950s so the GS phenomenon was only familiar to me through television. So I liked the jaunty neck kerchiefs and khaki […]
Alexis, Julia & The Mobile Homecoming Project
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.†That quote from June Jordan introduces folks to the website for Mobile Homing http://www.mobilehomecoming.org an amazing project developed by two young women, Alexis and Julia. They describe themselves as responding to “a deep craving for intergenerational connection.â€Â When we met this week end we affectionately called it […]
I Miss La Rondalla like I’d Miss a Woman
I know it was just a restaurant but I miss La Rondalla like I’d miss a woman. Voluptuous, gritty, innocent and knowing. Plastic flowers in her hair. Dressed up in gossamer Christmas lights along side photographs of men with guns and small game trophies. Diane and I used to go regularly—I was pork and chicken […]
Performative Sexuality
Not being an academic I rarely have the opportunity to use the word ‘performative.’ And it feels good. It conveys the sense of taking a familiar idea to a higher level of significance. With a word like ‘sexuality’ already fairly weighty in US culture you can only go to the head of the class by […]
Martin & Coretta have been to the Mountaintop
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968 I was a teenager sitting in my bedroom. I remember that as clearly as the assassination of JFK. I sobbed and naively thought that his death would mean the country would wake up and repudiate the racism and violence that plague the country. How […]
Apocalypse? …Later
Have you heard this? About the apocalypse coming on 3.21.11? I’m only asking because it seems like we should have heard something by now, that date is not that far away. It’s even closer than the 2012 Mayan shut down date. I saw the movie “2012†and it was not pretty! I hate to start […]
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