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Jewelle L. Gómez

Born

in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

September 11, 1948

Website

http://www.jewellegomez.com

Genre

Poetry, Short Stories, Gay & Lesbian

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Jewelle Gomez (b. 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer and cultural worker.

Gomez was raised by her great grandmother, Grace, who was born on Indian land in Iowa to an African American mother and Ioway father. Grace returned to New England before she was 14 when her father died and was married to John E. Morandus, a Wampanoag and descendent of Massasoit, the sachem for whom Massachusetts was named.

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s she was shaped socially and politically by the close family ties with her great grandmother, Grace and grandmother Lydia. Their history of independence as well as marginalization in an African American community are threaded throughout her work. Her high school and college years were ripe with Black ...more

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	The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon, James Lecesne, Armistead Maupin 3.91 avg rating — 1,581 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), W.E.B. Du Bois, Kalamu ya Salaam 4.16 avg rating — 1,408 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan E. Coyote (Editor), Zena Sharman (Editor), Joan Nestle (Foreword) 4.06 avg rating — 1,261 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Water 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilda Stories and Bones & Ash 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flamingoes & Bears: Poems 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Name Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for Giovanni: a dream play by Jewelle L. Gómez, Harry Waters Jr really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flamingoes & Bears Poems (1996-05-03) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.”
― Jewelle L. Gomez, The Gilda Stories

tags: life

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“For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls” when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.”
― Jewelle Gomez

tags: feminism, femme

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“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.”
― Jewelle Gomez

tags: langston-hughes, poetry

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