The Gilda Stories | 
Making an effort to diversify my bookshelves a bit more. As a teen who loved Anne Rice‘s Vampire Chronicles, how did I not hear about The Gilda Stories???!
Not featured is “white is for witching” which is apparently backordered into oblivion.
so-soMixed feelings. There's no question this book was ahead of its time, and (phones aside) the bits set in the future felt prescient. But the writing style was very sparse and I had a hard time understanding the emotional content and the motivations of the characters. It's entirely possible that's a me problem. #queerBooks
“Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: 2020
“Gilda dropped the receiver into its cradle. The crash was impersonal, final. She turned the power of the video monitor back and pressed replay in order to see the tape she had made of the national magazine show.“
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I'm not normally one for themed or seasonal reads, but I just so happened to start a vampire novel at the beginning of October, so I guess I'm on trend for once. #queerBooks
Three years ago I met the inimitable Jewelle Gomez at this reading for the 25th anniversary of her Gilda Stories 😍 #queerbooks #ownvoices
pickA slavery escape, vampires and Afrofuturism - oh my! And a winner of two LAMBDA awards in 1991. The novel follows Gilda from 1850 slavery escape and conversion to vampire, California in 1890s, Missouri 1920s, Boston 1950s, New York in 1970-80s, New Hampshire 2020 and ending in 2050. What does 2050 look like, well this 1991 novel might end up not being far off.
#booked2019 POC Paranormal @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
pickI can't believe it took me so long to read this book! A Black, lesbian vampire story that is about so much more. It's about connection, chosen family, race, the environment. It reaches back in time and forward into the future. It's a truly visionary read (that was written in 1991). Such a powerful tale of building the family you need! #queerbooks
Alexis Pauline Gumbs in her afterword of the 25th anniversary of the Gilda Stories. '. . .a special kind of self help book. . .enter a conversation with the species and he planet from the perspective of a black woman who loves women and black people unapologetically.' 🔥🔥🔥
The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that. 💔
A very prescient book written in 1991 that speaks to societal and ecological collapse 😬
I'm racing the clock with this one. I've got one more day before the loan expires. Why do I do this to myself?
Jacuzzi book times! Hotel getaways are the best! My partner has knee surgery and we've come to Niagara Falls for two night to ease the cabin fever!
In Niagara Falls (Canadian side) - the view from my hotel is kind of distracting me from my book 😍
I just learned about this book today. Has anyone read it yet? I was pleased to also find a nice bio on her and extra pleased to find she shares in my Cape Verdean heritage. Her family history and life was very interesting.
'The real dream is to make a world - to see the people and still want to make a world.' This intersectional feminist vampire #classic. #readthemargin #diversitydecbingo #jewellejomez #litsygram #ownvoices
"...those two guys. Instead I went back to my flat and wrote the first installment what would become The Gilda Stories."
This forward got me like ??
I hadn't heard of this before my Afrofuturism class but it's about, um, lesbian vampires.
Go ahead and send me a new copy of this book. Fine. I'll get it myself.
Sneaking in a few pages before the house lights go down 😁📖❤️
