Spectra Speaks
Feature Interviews and Press Mentions
- 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)
About Me

Meet Spectra: Queer Nigerian Afrofeminist Writer and Media Activist. Social Entrepreneur Nurturing Principled Diaspora and Women's Philanthropy in Media and Tech. Self-Care and Self-Love Evangelist. Idealist Warrior Woman. Big Dreamer. Big Thinker. Big Doer, Too.
Testimonials
I love not only your thoughts, but also how you express them… Your love-centered, hopeful, positive and proactive voice is incredibly refreshing and exactly what I’ve been looking for recently in the feminist blogosphere.
SaraSpectra has allowed myself, and many I know, access safer spaces to have much needed, challenging and powerful conversations that would otherwise not occur in our communities.
ShakiraThe Network/La Red… a flexible and effective communicator with youth across various social, class and cultural strata.
AyariGirl Scouts Program CoordinatorSpectra is a talented speaker and facilitator and is especially adept at working with groups of students in ways that both challenge and support individual viewpoints.
http://Eva, Harvard Women's Center… a force to be reckoned with–in a very positive way. Spectra has the “gift” of envisioning the greatness we can achieve and uniting the folks who will make that happen. I adore her.
TimFenway Health… [an] articulate weaving of personal experience and analysis.
BeckyBy sharing your story, you allow people like me to relate, to experience, to learn and to share with others as well. thank you, thank you, thank you.
JTThank you so much for sharing your story and for being an inspiration to so many people.
WayoftheLizWe love it when Spectra Speaks!
The Theater OffensiveI can always count on Spectra to challenge an audience, to nudge us in new directions and connect us with new ideas.
Andrew ElderThe History ProjectUpcoming Events
- No events. Self-care break.
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