Hollywood has proven that it literally would rather make another big budget film about black maids [The Help] than about real black women, much less queer black women. What a feeling then to see Alike’s [Pariah] projected face looking out into a packed movie theater while Audre Lorde looks on and whispers ‘because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself – a Black woman warrior poet doing my work – come to ask you, are you doing yours?’