Margie Adam is an integrative counselor in Berkeley, CA. She is also a singer-songwriter-pianist and one of the founder-organizers of Women’s Music, a Second Wave feminist cultural initiative fueled by lesbian passion. www.margieadam.com

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20 May Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | Comments Off

On Toni Morrison and Ntozake ShangÃ©

Part 7 of a conversation between Feminist icons Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: JG: I really like writing about anything before the 60s – partly because there aren’t that many people alive who will complain. But also because there’s still a level of hope that people of color have. It hasn’t all devolved into cynicism […]

23 Feb Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 1 comment

Radical Feminism and Spirituality

Part 6 of a conversation between Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: MA: You and I came of age in the feminist movement and in the radical feminist community – grew up there – you on the east coast, me on the west coast. I remember Kay Gardner and Z. Budapest talking about the Goddess. Both […]

04 Sep Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | Comments Off

The ‘Lesbian Feminist Writer’ label

Part 5 of a conversation between Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: MA: At some point in your career, there had to have been a moment where someone said: “Look, if you could just tone it down a little, if you could just roll the edge off your “angry lesbian feminist tirade,”Â you could have a […]

28 Jul Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | Comments Off

“Shut Your Faggot Mouth!”

Part 4 of a conversation between Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: Margie Adam: I think of the part of the play (Waiting for Giovanni by Jewelle Gomez) where Richard Wright walks offstage hurling a vicious comment: “Shut your faggot mouth!”Â In both performances I attended there was an audible gasp in the audience. I think […]

07 Jun Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 1 comment

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 3

Three Blocks from My House – A Lifetime! Jewelle Gomez: I was lesbian from my childhood. I always knew I was a lesbian and I couldn’t quite figure out what I was supposed to do with that. Margie Adam: What does that mean: “I always knew I was a lesbian?” Jewelle Gomez:Â I just knew I […]

10 May Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 3 comments

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 2

Editorâ€™s note: I am thrilled to have feminist icons Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez on Epochalips. These two have influenced our generation by paving the way as feminists and out lesbians in the early days to continuing to share their gifts with the world today. The following is the second of several excerpts from their […]

30 Mar Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 3 comments

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: A Conversation

10 Oct Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 2 comments

Lesbian Going All the Way – Part 3

I am 63 today and I am involved in a passionate relationship with a 41-year old woman. Being a lesbian is still about holding a space for woman-loving in my personal and public life. It is still about the heady first kiss-this time between two women on a moonlit Hebridean beach. It is about the […]

24 Sep Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 1 comment

Lesbian: Going All the Way – Part 2

When I came out in the sixties, “coming out” meant reinventing the world. It meant blowing a hole in the constricting walls of homophobia in my personal life, in my culture and in American politics by living out my woman-loving ways each day. It meant clearing a new and shining path in the world with […]

09 Sep Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 2 comments

Lesbian: Going All The Way – Part 1

By the time I reached my 15th birthday, I was old. I smoked unfiltered Camel cigarettes and I had had sex with most of the boys in the neighborhood including my younger brother. I had mastered the public transport system so I could escape the stifling little town I lived in. Early every Saturday morning […]

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Margie Adam // Margie Adam is an integrative counselor in Berkeley, CA. She is also a singer-songwriter-pianist and one of the founder-organizers of Women’s Music, a Second Wave feminist cultural initiative fueled by lesbian passion. www.margieadam.com

On Toni Morrison and Ntozake ShangÃ©

Radical Feminism and Spirituality

The ‘Lesbian Feminist Writer’ label

“Shut Your Faggot Mouth!”

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 3

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 2

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: A Conversation

Lesbian Going All the Way – Part 3

Lesbian: Going All the Way – Part 2

Lesbian: Going All The Way – Part 1

What's InsideA lesbian smorgasbord

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