Shoniqua Roach is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University where her research and teaching focuses on Black Feminisms, Queer Studies, and Black Literary and Visual Cultures. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Women and Performance, Feminist Theory, The Black Scholar, Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Journal of American Culture, and differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, provisionally titled Black Sexual Sanctuaries, which explores the possibilities for black women’s sexual citizenship and erotic freedom within overlooked or dismissed domains such as privacy and domesticity.