Thistle & Verse’s Reviews > Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals > Status Update
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It seems like a glaring omission to me that I didn't learn this history in high school. School I went to was not too far from Philly, and I remember the Gilded Age was a big topic of discussion. I remember talking about NY and Chicago but not really about what it looked like in our own backyard
— Mar 03, 2026 10:09AM
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I really appreciate Hartman's chapter on Gladys Bentley. I'd learned about Bentley's life in bits and pieces, and I'm not sure how much archival info is actually preserved on her because she was a working class performer. But something about how Hartman presented these scraps of info made Bentley feel alive.
This book keeps driving home the beauty and terror of the Great Migration and growth of Black Philly & NYC
— Mar 04, 2026 03:26PM
This book keeps driving home the beauty and terror of the Great Migration and growth of Black Philly & NYC
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I have family history in Philly, so these stories are hitting close to home. The Thomas Eakins story was horrifying. The stuff about DuBois so far hasn't really been a surprise because I've heard critical history of him. I'm interested to see how else Hartman engages with his studies of the city.
— Jan 21, 2026 02:05PM
