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.
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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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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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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.
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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."
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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)