The Queer Image #11 x Black History Month: The Watermelon Woman – curated by Clarice Gargard
Date: 26.02.2026
Start: 19:00 (to be officially confirmed)
Location: Schuur Haarlem
In celebration of Black History Month, Schuur and Nieuwe Vide are kicking The Queer Image off this month with the film “The Watermelon Woman.” The film is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, but it’s still relevant today.
“The Watermelon Woman celebrates it’s 20th anniversary. What is it’s significance within The Culture? How has the cinematic and artistic landscape of Black and queer imagery progressed, digressed or changed? And what is the necessity of examining, archiving and (re)imagining the Black Queer Image in and outside of the current political and social climate? In this programme we explore these questions and the dreams beyond binaries the system provides us with.” – Clarice M.D. Gargard
Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman (1996) is a playful and radical exploration of Black lesbian history, recently rediscovered and reissued. The evening is curated and presented by Clarice Gargard, a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker who recently published the acclaimed book After Resistance Comes (R)evolution, about igniting personal and societal (r)evolution. More information about the program will be published soon.
More about Clarice M.D. Gargard (Philadelphia, 1988) is a journalist, writer and documentary maker who combines journalism, art, social justice, philosophy and mysticism. She makes documentaries, writes articles and books and organises in creative and social spaces. She worked as an NRC columnist and Correspondent Resistance at the Correspondent. She has also worked as an editor and presenter for AT5, BNNVARA (Joop), Vrij Nederland, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and contributed to Vice, South African 702 Talk Radio and Afropunk. Gargard co-founded the feminist journalism platform Lilith Magazine with Hasna El Maroudi and the management and consultancy bureau Lilith Agency. She is also co founder of Black Pride NL. Gargard also writes a bi-monthly column for Conflict Management Magazine.
In 2019, Gargard was the Dutch women’s representative and gave a speech on women’s rights and the importance of systemic change at the United Nations General Assembly. As a maker and lover of art and culture, she is also a board member of the Prince Claus Fund. She was also part of the Supervisory Board of the Holland Festival and is on the Advisory Board of the Dutch Association for the United Nations.
The documentary Daddy and the Warlord, about her father and the Liberian civil wars, which she made in collaboration with Shamira Raphaëla, won a Golden Calf in 2019 for Best Short Documentary. She also won a Black Achievement Award in the People and Society category and was nominated in 2018 and 2019 for the Joke Smit incentive prize for her work and activism. In 2020 she won the feminist international Emma Goldman Snowball Award. Gargard’s book Dragon Daughter (Arbeiderspers) about her family history, migration, politics and society is now for sale at bookshops. And will hopefully be translated to English soon.
In 2022, her documentary Go back and get it (VPRO) about the timelessness of black resistance in the Netherlands, Suriname and Curacao was released. It was selected for the Golden Calf competition.
In 2025 her new critically acclaimed book From resistance to (r)evolution about how to ignite a personal and societal (r)evolution came out.
The Queer Image is a collaboration between Nieuwe Vide and Schuur Haarlem. Read more about The Queer Image here. Please note that most of these programs are presented in English to accommodate our international community.
*We offer a discount for our queer community – Ticket 6,75 : THEQUEERIMAGE
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Discountcode queer community – Ticket 6,75 : THEQUEERIMAGE
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Date: 26.02.2026
Start: 19:00 (will be confirmed)
Location: Schuur Haarlem
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The Watermelon Woman
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Photo credit: RvdA for Stedelijk Amsterdam X Clarice