Jewelle: A Just Vision traces the nodes of social movements from Civil Rights to Marriage Equality. It reveals radical B | dG1fTVFKRjBPOUQ4QXM
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00Great to have Jewel Gomez back in the house, poet, playwright, celebrating the expanded
00:2625th anniversary edition of The Gilda Stories.
00:35Jewel the great storyteller.
00:38Jewel the great truth teller.
00:42The way she holds herself and the way she writes from her truth.
00:49The Gilda Stories pushed the boundaries of what had been in print before.
00:54Why hadn't it not occurred to anybody that the perfect vampire would be a black lesbian?
01:03Her work is important for bringing historical figures who were queer to the present and
01:08to a whole new generation of audiences.
01:14Fictionalizing, humanizing, filling those gaps in the historical record with imagination,
01:21imagination through a lens of the experience of living in the world as a queer person
01:26of color.
01:29You have to be able to imagine a better world to get to a better world, which is why I love
01:34writing.