Jewelle Gomez // Posts published by Jewelle Gomez
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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