This articulation is directly linked to Hammonds' concern about the visibility and audibility of black queer sexualities, since black women’s sexualities are perceived as always invisible or absent, then lesbian and queer black women and authors must follow as doubly invisible. While white sexuality as the normative sexuality has been challenged by other writers, Hammonds frames her intervention as reaching beyond the limits of this familiar critique. To effectively challenge the hegemony of whiteness within Queer theory, Hammonds charges black feminists with the major projects of reclaiming sexuality so that black women and black women sexualities may register as present and power relations between white women and black women's expression of gender and sexuality becomes a part of theory making within Queer studies (Hammonds, 131).