H. Sharif Williams

Hameed Sharif “Herukhuti” Williams is an American cultural studies scholar whose work focuses on sex research and education. He is also a systems theorist, culture and interdisciplinary social scientist, journalist and public speaker who has written about and lectured on bisexuality particularly among people of African descent.

Williams was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, with a heritage steeped in the black radical and socialist traditions. His maternal great-grandmother was Garveyite, a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and active in the Moorish Science Temple. His material grandparents were members of the American Labor Party (ALP), and his parents were members of both the Black Panther Party and later the Sunni Muslim community. His mother was a union organizer, and a tenants rights and housing advocate, and his father worked on Major David Dinkins first mayoral campaign.

Galvanized by the police murders of the several black people, including Eleanor Bumpers, Michael Stewart, Michael Griffith and later Yusef Hawkins, Williams became politically active as a teenager in an effort to end racially based and state-based violence and murder against people of African descent in New York. As a 14-year-old, he was formally initiated into the Kemetic priesthood by Amen Khafra Ndongo, High Priest and Founder of the Temple of the White and Gold Lotus, Shrine of Amen-Ra and received the name Aih Djehuti Herukhuti Khepera Ra Temi Seti Amen.

Williams holds a PhD. in human and organizational systems with a concentration in transformative learning for social justice and specializations in sexuality and cross-cultural studies of knowledge.

Williams is the author of Conjuring Black Funk: Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality, Vol. 1 and the co-editor with Robin Ochs of Recognize: the Voices of Bisexual Men.

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