Jewelle Gomez - The Gilda Stories

This week on Black Art Is Lit, we’re reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez.Originally published in the early 1990s, this book entered the literary world at a moment when Black women writers working in speculative and supernatural traditions were rarely centered, and even less often taken seriously. Gomez, an award-winning Black lesbian writer and cultural worker, built a story that has since…