Hood wellness: tales of communal care from people who drowned on dry land

Foreword / by Tanya Denise Fields

Introduction

section I. Care & body: My neck, my back ; A beauty worth admiring / by Joshua Dixon ; Can I hate your order? ; Beg borrow heal ; Care for the terminally ill ; A road map for leaving the body / by Holly Raines ; Heated ; Casa de Tami : the Black fairy godmother ; It's my turn / by Simone Gordon ; Gummy bitch

section II. Care & intersectionality: Last mammy standing ; The stakes is high ; Pan(ic)demic ; Casa de Tami : Kit ; Girls just want to have fun (and code) / by Kit Fenrir Amreik ; The South's got somethin' to say ; The sweetest Sunday ever known : self-care Sunday & chattel slavery ; Bustin' nuts in an antiabortion state ; For Black girls unshifting...

section III. Care, community & activism: Casa de Tami : Shevone ; While I'm still here / by Shevone Torres ; Me too... but who all gone be there? ; Part I : shout-out to Claudette Colvin ; Part II : me who? ; There's more to me than HIV / by LáDeia Joice ; A drag deferred ; Afterword / by Dr. Tyffani Monford Dent.