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Jewelle Gomez Lesbian/feminist/speculative fiction author & cultural worker

Dolores & me

Mother & me.JPG

This is a bittersweet picture for me. It must have been taken shortly before she sent me to live with the parents of my father, Duke. One can't know what a woman has to think through to do that but it can't have been easy. And I got a good deal with Great grandmother AND grandmother.