“He explained that he didn’t invite all his patients out for dinner but he liked me perhaps rather more than the others. I was a special kind of person.”
Apogee Journal’s nonfiction editor, Safia Jama, asked poet and scholar Naomi Extra about the making of her essay, “Blackgirl Pleasure Notes: Life, Sex, & 90s Black Cinema,” which is now available for your reading pleasure in Apogee Journal Issue 07.