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On the Road with THE GILDA STORIES
Of all the southern cities Atlanta is the one I’ve visited most. It’s got wonderful universities, peaches and Coca Cola (I know, not correct but it’s been my fave since I was a kid!). I attended the very first conference on Black Speculative Fiction writers at Clark Atlanta University more than a decade ago and […]
Vampire Cocktails with Jewelle Gomez!
I kicked off the book tour for the new 25th anniversary edition of THE GILDA STORIES with two readings in historic places. First at City Lights Books (publisher of this new edition) in North Beach. It’s the literary home of the Beat Poets and artists such as Jack Hirschman, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, […]
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 ‘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 […]
Almost Audre’s Birthday!
A couple of years ago some women put together a program celebrating Audre Lorde and Pat Parker and I had the pleasure of doing some remembering out loud in front of about 1000 people. They were almost all women, those who knew the two writers mostly through their work. But Audre had been my friend…we […]
A Rare Jewelle
I am currently making a feature documentary film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth, about the life and art of Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker. So far it has been an extraordinary journey, allowing me opportunities to meet some amazing and inspiring women, all of who deserve films in their own right. Jewelle Gomez is […]
An Off Broadway Stage Manager-ess
In the early 1980s I worked as a stage manager for plays done in Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theatres. I loved the collaborative nature of production: people, mostly strangers, come together to work intensely, intimately for several months, flying through the highs and lows of vulnerability necessary to creating real art. Then closing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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