Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments dotty and the soft black rib

and the soft black rib on the back

stretchiest fabric

With visionary intensity

Adjustable tie neck & back

made from a stretch white mesh

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments dotty and the soft black ribIn collaboration with TenderBooks: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals Saidiya Hartman. At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour like slaves. Wrestling with the question of freedom,