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

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Darnell L. Moore in Features, Interviews

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

I was introduced to the iconic Cheryl Clarke while organizing a conference on spirituality and sexuality with writer and scholar Ashon T. Crawley for the Newark Pride Alliance in Newark, NJ in 2008. Ashon and I marveled for days over the fact that we had engaged in a few contentious planning meetings with Clarke, and survived! Our meeting spurred an instant love affair with the black queer literary luminary whose voice, work, and life has continued to make space for our own. (more…)