Sarah-Anne Gresham
Sarah-Anne Gresham is the Co-founder and Director of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda, where she also serves as editor, and a doctoral candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. She also served a 3-year term representing Intersect and speaking to the Caribbean context as a Board Director at the global feminist fund, The Equality Fund.
Sarah is the author of “Black Bodies at Play: Race and Gender at the Edges of Subjectivity,” published in Mechademia, for the University of Minnesota Press, and the forthcoming chapter, “Traveling Theory: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectionality” in the Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean.
From 2016 to 2018, she was the research officer in residence at the Directorate of Gender Affairs in Antigua. In this capacity, she produced internal reports on gender-based and sexual violence, organized and provided managerial oversight for Antigua’s first national gender-based violence forum, provided gender-responsive training for climate disaster shelter managers in collaboration with UNFPA, and edited Antigua and Barbuda’s 2015 CEDAW report.
Sarah was the 2020 Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University, where she completed a master’s degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under a Fulbright scholarship. During her studies at GWU, she was the 2019-2020 recipient of the Ruth Helm Osborn Research Fellowship, the Service to the Community of Women Award, the Emily B. Proctor Research Award, the Graduate Prize for Feminist Scholarship, among other accolades.
She applied for and received a multi-year grant from the Women’s Voice and Leadership – Caribbean program and a solidarity grant from the Black Feminist Fund in support of the work of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda. Since launching, Sarah and the Intersect team have curated over two hundred Caribbean feminist stories, essays, art, and photography on a range of topics germane to gender and queer liberation and transnational feminist solidarity.
Her cyberfeminist activism includes organizing public-facing teach-ins grounded in political education and healing justice, and publishing non-peer-reviewed Caribbean and transnational feminist content.
She was a 2025 Hosei International Scholars fellow at Hosei University, Tokyo, where she conducted field research and delivered lectures on transnational formations of race, gender, and sexuality in cosplay and anime for her Ph.D. thesis titled “The Intimacies of Afro/Japanese Desire Machines: A Material and Affective Inquiry into Black Women’s Relationships with Anime Characters.”
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys ballet, anime, and taking pictures of her books. Follow her bookstagram account at the handle, @booklempt.gyal, to read more about her love of feminist storytelling.
