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27 Nov Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off on Whose Country?

Whose Country?

Whose Country?

Recently a co-worker told me that she couldn’t get over the fact that I liked country music. I wasn’t completely surprised because most of us live in narrow cultural boxes in which we expect everything to fit neatly.  People of color and country are not supposed to be in the same package.  That was part of […]

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03 Nov Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | 2 comments

I See Orange People

I See Orange People

I’ve always liked a girl in a uniform.  Geena Davis in her WWII era baseball uniform in the film “League of Our Own”….delicious!  My late, great Aunt Edith in her WAVES uniform…impressive!  The women in “Animal Cops-Florida”…fun!  When both the fire and the police chief in San Francisco were women I was in heaven; always […]

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25 Oct Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off on Touching Down in the Land of Cornhuskers

Touching Down in the Land of Cornhuskers

Touching Down in the Land of Cornhuskers

I just returned from a 3 three day visit to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.  My first touch down in the land of cornhuskers.  I think of myself as a corn goddess so I was eager.  I like visiting college campuses and working with students, it’s a little window into worlds that I wouldn’t […]

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08 Oct Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off on What is Biomythography?

What is Biomythography?

What is Biomythography?

My grandmother was a Hollywood star.  At least in my mind.  She was as glamorous as Dorothy Dandridge or Lauren Bacall.  She’d danced and sang in chorus lines in the 1930s and 40s, the lone Indian among the somewhat lighter-skinned ‘Negro’ chorines.  She’d faced down low-level mobsters in Boston’s South End and left an abusive […]

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29 Sep Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | 3 comments

Ode to Jill Johnston

Ode to Jill Johnston

When I arrived in New York City in 1971 after graduating from college in Boston I knew only two things for sure:  I wanted to be a writer and I was a lesbian.  I was at a complete loss as to what to do about either of my identities.  I was shy so dropping in […]

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22 Sep Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off on We All Want To Go To Heaven

We All Want To Go To Heaven

We All Want To Go To Heaven

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” That song, whether you go w/the Albert King or the Loretta Lynn version, is one of my favorite aphorisms.  Twenty years after publication of my vampire novel, THE GILDA STORIES, it’s still in print and readers still ask me for more stories. Vampires are […]

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31 Aug Posted by in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off on The Gift of a Name

The Gift of a Name

The Gift of a Name

My name has been on my mind all of my life.  It’s not like when you’re called Mary Jones…perfectly lovely name but not uncommon.  Gomez isn’t that uncommon either actually; even Gomes (which is the original spelling) isn’t unusual, especially in my father’s Cape Verdean culture. Jewelle, however, is out of the ordinary.  I didn’t […]

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