Matriarch Binding:Paperback Based on extensive archival and

Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research on dozens of women who have worked in adult entertainment since the 1980s

Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away

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told in her own words—a thoughtful and informed look at her rise from the streets of Brooklyn to the halls of Congress

as humans mythologized its name and purpose

Matriarch Binding:Paperback Based on extensive archival and*Paperback Release Date 4 28 26* A glorious chronicle of a life like none otherenlightening, entertaining, surprising, empoweringand a testament to the world changing power of Black motherhood You are Celestine, she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. Like my sister and my grandmother. And there under the pecan tree, as she did countless times, that day my mother told me stories of the mothers and