Hartman, who is fifty-nine, wore a blue batik tunic over slim black pants and plum-shaded ankle boots. “I’m this shy person, and this feels so weird.” Several artists planned to present work that illustrated Hartman’s influence on them. The museum was holding an event to celebrate Hartman’s latest book, “ Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,” an account, set in New York and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, that blends history and fiction to chronicle the sexual and gender rebellions of young Black women. On a clear night earlier this year, the writer and scholar Saidiya Hartman was fidgeting in a cab on the way to MOMA PS1, the contemporary-art center in Queens.
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