Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Nature but Sister Holiday feels called

but Sister Holiday feels called on by God to hunt down the murderer and keep her community safe

detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes

friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis

starring in a production of Twelfth Night and running the Comedy Club

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Nature but Sister Holiday feels calledBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged