Library to Host Author, Activist Jewelle Gomez

Tompkins County Public Library will host “It’s Bigger on the Inside:  How Imagination Opens Us to the World Beyond Ourselves,”  a presentation by award-winning novelist, teacher, poet, playwright, and activist, Jewelle Gomez, Saturday March 15 at 3 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.

 

Presented in collaboration with Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Multicultural Resource Center, “It’s Bigger on the Inside,” will explore, in part, the intersection of Gomez’ life and libraries.

 

Gomez is the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories (Firebrand Books), and seven other volumes.  She has penned numerous essays and film and literary criticism for publications including: the Village Voice, MS. Magazine, the Advocate, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Black Scholar.  She is the president of the San Francisco Library Commission and was a successful litigant in the lawsuit challenging California’s anti-gay marriage law.

 

For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.