The Clayton Sisterhood Project: A photographer captures her family’s reverse migration from North to South

Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman, a Black lesbian American, conceptual, multidisciplinary and intersectional feminist artist and one of Laila Stevens’ close friends, at home with her momma, Mari-Eva Mendes. Laila AnnMarie Stevens

Laila AnnMarie Stevens

For five years, Laila AnnMarie Stevens documented multiple generations of her family as they moved from New York City to North Carolina for better opportunities and “a different quality of life.” Stevens says she saw it as a kind of reversal of