Take Me With You
Kindred Powell's youth is marked by a secret that her white mother and Black father kept from her. After her father Carl's unjust incarceration and her mother's death from illness, Kindred moves from Los Angeles to New York in a desperate search for peace. There, she finds her girlfriend Nautica, a career in sex work, and a kinky boy toy named Griffin. But when Carl goes missing from LA's Skid Row, Kindred must drop everything to find him.
Vanessa Carlisle holds a PhD in Creative Writing, Literature and Gender Studies. She is the author of A Crack in Everything (2010) as well as stories and essays appearing in PULP!, NinthLetter, Juked, Men Undressed, We Too: Stories of Sex Work and Survival, n+1, and many more. As a queer femme sex worker, death doula, activist, and educator, Vanessa's work calls for big change while celebrating the beauty and complexity of her communities here and now. She is published in many literary magazines including her article “How to Build a Hookers Army,” has a forthcoming piece in the South Atlantic Quarterly, and is the co-author of zine Don’t Hate My Heels.
