Helen (charles) is a Black British lesbian feminist writer and activist, who has written on womanism and the concept of whiteness.^[1] (charles) writes the shape of her name to recall the history of imposition of "family" names on black slaves.^[2]

• Womanism: recognizing "difference": one direction for the Black woman activist. Canterbury: University of Kent, 1990. Women's studies occasional papers, no. 21.
• "Whiteness? The relevance of politically colouring the 'non'", in Hilary Hinds, Ann Phoenix & Sackie Stacey (eds), Working out: New Directions for Women's Studies, Falmer: University of Brighton Press, 1992.
• "A Homogeneous Habit: Heterosexual Display in the English Holiday Camp", in Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson (eds), Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader, Sage Publications, 1993, pp. 270–272.
• "Queer nigger: theorizing 'white' activism", in J. Bristow and A. R. Wilson (eds), Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1993.
• "(Not) compromising: inter-skin colour relations", in L. Pearce and J. Stacey (eds), Romance Revisited, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1995.
• "'White' skins, straight masks", in Delia Jarrett-Macauley (ed.), Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism, London: Routledge, 1996.
• "The language of womanism: Re-thinking difference", in Heidi Safia Mirza (ed.), Black British Feminist: A Reader, London: Routledge, 1997.