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Finger Exercises?
There was nothing I couldn’t talk about with Granny, who died two years ago at 103. I asked her when she was in her early nineties. If she could have chosen a different life, if she could have been with women, would she have? “Yes, I think so†she said.  “So did you ever think of […]
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 […]
Exquisitely Sweet Iraqi Haroset for Passover
Look in any good Middle Eastern or Arabic grocery store and they will have a jar of what we Iraqis call silan (“see-lanâ€), a syrup, made from dates. Iraqi dates deliver the thickest syrup. When you mix finely ground walnuts with the silan (usually at around a 4:1 ratio of silan to dates) to thicken […]
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 […]
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 […]
Image as Inspiration – Gloria Richardson
Sometime in the late 1960s I fell in love with Gloria Richardson. To be precise I fell in love with a picture of her from 1964 and what it represented for me: direct and fierce action from a woman of color. I found the picture when doing photographic research for a television show for which […]
Happy Dance
Okay, so there are a few who stare mutely at my Bo Obama button, mouths open, like they still can’t believe they lost to us commie hippie queer vile and disgusting President Obama-supporters, but that’s what watching FOX TV can do to people. The station is a teleprompter for viewers, scrolling non-stop scripts detailing what […]
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. […]
Get Wet with Wallis Stern in ‘Deep Water Flesh’
DEEP WATER FLESH When the Love Childe Wallis Stern opens her mind she opens her heart like she opens a book. And so should we all. To wit and as follows: The Tall Girl Nell kicks off a stiletto heel, dangles a long delicate foot in the water, and s/he says: I have a recurrent […]
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,” you could have a […]
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