Telling stories
Dr. Gamble weaves narratives through podcasting, photography, and screenwriting. She explores the intricate themes of culture, visibility, and power, using television and film to highlight diverse voices and experiences. Dr. Gamble’s storytelling invites audiences to join her on a journey that celebrates the diversity of the human experience.
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For the Social Justice Origin Stories podcast, I discussed the power of storytelling in my Discovery Diversity class. I have learned a great deal about creating a safe and brave space for individuals to explore, ask questions, and challenge conventional (and often harmful) ideas.
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Better (she/her), Washington, DC
I photographed Better in connection with a 2019 talk I hosted about Sex and Relationships for masculine-of-center queer women.
Better explains a common misconception about masculine-of-center lesbians, or “doms” as they’re called in DC. “They think we wanna be men,” she says. “I do not wanna be a man!”
When you’re queer and clockable, any visibility is too much for folks who would prefer you be out of sight and out of mind.
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34 years after the premiere of the iconic HBCU-based television show, A Different World, AND at the beginning of LGBTQ History Month, I'm joined by three University of the District of Columbia students and alumni — Trinice McNally, Taylor Bryant, and Shabre West, to discuss this unique intersection of identities.
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The Republic Theatre, a movie house on U Street, before it was demolished to make room for the Metro | Photograph by Robert McNeill, provided by Susan McNeill.
Black Broadway, the DC Renaissance, U Street, NW.
Never before, anywhere had I seen such persons of influence — men with some money, women with some beauty, teachers with some education — quite so sure of their own importance and their high places in the community.
-Langston Hughes
With stars like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and countless teachers, doctors, and business people living and commiserating in DC’s famed U Street Corridor, the DC Renaissance was born. And it was DC that paved the way for Harlem.