“This Is Jezebel” (a story)

And now for something different.

This is not a translation.  You can call it midrash or fan fiction.  I’ve been writing a chapter about Queen Jezebel and her death for my dissertation, and this was my way of dignifying her death without rewriting it, while giving a voice to some of the only canonically queer characters in the Bible.

I hope you enjoy it.

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.

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Captain Marvel #2 - Speaking Without Concern (1994)

Story: Dwayne McDuffie & Dwight D. Coye, art: M.D. Bright

“…I speak without concern for the accusations that I am too much or too little woman that I am too black or too white or too much myself and through my lips come the voices of the ghosts of our ancestors living and moving among us…" 

      -  Prologue by Audre Lorde (fragment)