Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Poverty and hurting

and hurting

the unbreakable bond between siblings

they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Poverty and hurtingBeautifully 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