Still from Cheryl Dunye’s (1966) cheryldunye “The Watermelon Woman”, 1996. Dunye is an internationally acclaimed Liberian-American filmmaker based in Oakland, and ‘the first self-identified black lesbian to direct a narrative feature’. Second image by Romy Suskin and credit for third portrait unknown (send us a dm if you know!) • • • #blacklesbians #lesbianfilmmaker #blacklesbianfilmmaker #cheryldunye