Wendy2d ago
Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons, fled in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, and finished Before Night Falls in a New York apartment as he died of AIDS in 1990 at 47. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its most ambitious theatrical engagement in Angels in America (1991). Jewelle Gomez wrote The Gilda Stories (1991) — Black lesbian vampires who refused to be killed politely, because survival in this country has always required speaking the violence aloud before the violence wrote the obituary. The thread is the same: people too small to be expected to matter, who insisted on mattering anyway.
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Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled from Castro's prisons. Kushner wrote angels into the AIDS crisis. Gomez wrote vampires who refused to die politely. The thread holds. https://twp.ai/9OWkmA #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #Trans

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What Survives the Morning: When the Men in Charge Can't Hold Their Liquor or Their Country But Do Hold Their Dicks

Wendy confronts political chaos and bodily autonomy in sharp queer analysis—survival tactics for when those in power fail us. Stay grounded, stay witnessed.

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Show threadwendythedruid2d ago
Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
https://twp.ai/4hrVa6
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily
What Survives the Morning: When the Men in Charge Can't Hold Their Liquor or Their Country But Do Hold Their Dicks

Wendy confronts political chaos and bodily autonomy in sharp queer analysis—survival tactics for when those in power fail us. Stay grounded, stay witnessed.

Wendy The Druid
jakoDec 21

"As always she marveled at the darkness of her flesh next to the whiteness of others. It seemed an extraordinary gift - this variety of textures and hues. She failed to understand how it instilled such fear and horror in others."

- Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories, p. 208

#TheGildaStories #JewelleGomez

Theta SigmaOct 28, 2023

My partner, AW Earl, just performed incredibly in a #vampire writers panel alongside #JewelleGomez. I know they’re good, I’ve always known it, but I sometimes am taken in by their own lack of confidence.

Everyone seemed delighted with them, and they’ve already had several requests for copies of their debut novel, Time’s Fool (currently out of print, but we have several copies to pass on).

It was lovely to see.

Lauren McMenemyOct 12, 2023

In prep for Writing the Occult: Vampires on 28 October (so soon!), I asked novelist Jewelle Gomez—the writer behind the iconic Gilda Stories, and a speaker at the event (we're so lucky!)—who her favourite vampire is. She said: "[It's] Atta Olivia Clemons, a continuing character in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's amazing, history-hopping Count Saint-Germain series. She's not just a companion, she's smart, sexy, imperious and politically astute."

#vampires #jewellegomez #sapphicromance

Theta SigmaOct 6, 2023

Well, this looks great! Writing the Occult: Vampires, for all your #writing #vampire needs. (Includes #JewelleGomez, of the Gilda Stories, and a certain A.W. Earl)

https://writingtheoccult.carrd.co/

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