Jewelle gomez biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders!
Jewelle Gomez
Novelist
b. September 11, 1948
“No one of us should feel we can leave someone behind in the struggle for liberation.”
Jewelle Gomez is an author and activist whose writing centers on the experiences of LGBTQ women of color.
Jewelle gomez biography for kids
Her books include the double Lambda Award-winning novel “The Gilda Stories.” Gomez was a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Gomez was raised by her great-grandmother, a woman of African and Native American descent.
Gomez attended Northeastern University on a full scholarship. As one of the university’s few black students, she began her lifetime of activism participating in protests over campus inequality. She received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study at Columbia University School of Journalism and worked as a production assistant on “Say Brother,” one of the first black weekly television shows in the United States.
Gomez’s feminist and intersectional activism