Beautifully 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.
They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the.
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.
Beautifully 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