Saidiya Hartman joins filmmaker, artist, and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa in discussion of her book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. The book delves into the lives of young black women in the early 20th century, exploring the forms of kinship and intimacy that created a revolution of black intimate life. In addition to creating acclaimed works such as the video essays The White Album and Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, Jafa has worked with collaborators ranging from Spike Lee and Julie Dash to Kanye West and Solange.