Sapphire Archives

October 25, 2011 5 min read

Sapphire’s first novel, Push, is a regular selection for my Introduction to Women’s Studies classes. Students enjoy reading the novel...

Cheryl Clarke: The Never-Ending Resource that is Black Queerness

July 6, 2011 11 min read

“There is queer activism in the African diaspora and wherever that movement is, there is always cultural production.” I was...

May 10, 2011 6 min read

From Precious to Richard Brown When the HIV pandemic began to garner national attention in the early 1980s, it was...

March 2, 2010 5 min read

When Jesse Bennett’s family moves to a small town on northern England after her mother’s return home from a mental...