We continue with our discussion of Watermelon Woman. Please revisit sections of the film to respond to the following questions in approximately 350 words:

As we follow the character Cheryl’s efforts to research the lost life and history of Fae Richards and to make a film about her, what kinds of information does she try to recover and what roadblocks does she hit at the libraries, archives, oral interviews? 

What is Dunye the filmmaker trying to tell us through these encounters about the difficulties in recovering histories of queer Black women?