Feature Interviews and Press Mentions

• 20 African Women with Powerful and Inspiring Voices (Listed by Applause Africa)
• 17 Black Bloggers to Know (Listed by For Harriet)
• Highlighted Sexuality Professional of the Day (Profile Interview for Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health)
• The Femisphere: African Feminist Bloggers (Profile Interview for Ms. Magazine)
• Spectra’s Keynote Address for The Rivers School Day of Silence (for School Newspaper, Podium)
• 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (by Women, Action, and the Media)
• Spectra Organizes Women of Color in New England (Profile Interview for Edge Network)
• This is What a Lesbian Looks Like (Print Feature in Curve Magazine)
• Who’s Who: Queer Women of Color and Friends Founder (Profile Interview for Diffuse5)

 

Distinguished Training Programs and Institutes

• 2011 EMERGE Women’s Political Training Program
• Spring 2011 LGBT People of Color Media Training Institute (Training from GLAAD)
• The Op-Ed Project (March 2010)

 

Published Works Elsewhere

• Founder and Executive Editor at QWOC Media Wire
• Staff Writer at Gender Across Borders
• Contributor at Role Reboot
• Guest Blogger at BITCH Magazine

• Preventing LGBT Youth of Color Suicides: A Case for Diversity (Feature for Color Magazine)
• Not (Just) Another Queer Movie: The Racialicious Review of Pariah (Feature for Racialicious)
• I Am Alike: How Films Like Pariah Can Save the World (Feature for Autostraddle)
• Love and Afrofeminism Series (guest blogging for BITCH Magazine)

• Queer African Reader Anthology (Accepted)
• Ain’t I A Woman (Accepted)

 

Awards and Accolades

• 2010 Lavender Rhino Award (Awarded by the History Project)
• 2010 Trailblazer Award (Awarded by Fenway Women’s Health)
• 1st Prize Boit Manuscript in Fiction (Awarded by MIT)
• 2nd Prize Robert A. Boit Short Story (Awarded by MIT)