Jewelle Gomez // Posts tagged as "Jewelle Gomez"
On Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shangé
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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!” In both performances I attended there was an audible gasp in the audience. I think […]
What Gays Do…On Vacation
I love my uber-friendly dentist’s office. They are totally moderne and pain-free in every way. The doctor loads up his iPod with cool tunes and docks it in his sound system. He could have a show on a west coast public radio station with his eclectic mix of rock, folk, blues and jazz. The receptionist/scheduler […]
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