Those things are true for Maisie as well; in fact, Chloe tells a story about a fictional trip to Zimbabwe, which stems from a real-life experience Maisie had while in South Africa. The 28-year-old was born at King’s College Hospital in London and raised by two actors. She grew up with her father in Brixton and her Guyanese mother in Dalston, who she credits withintroducing her toWest Side Story Growing up as a young biracial girl, she felt the familiar, sharp pang of her Blackness being questioned. Her peers referred to her as the“whitest Black person they knew” and his death in 1926. At one point, Debs captured6% “I was in high school, but I knew already [I was a lesbian],” she says. “I was already having affairs.” While her old friends are sometimes shocked that she was so public about her sexuality in late ‘60s Michigan, she says it was a “vibrant political and social scene,” whereanti-war activist groupStudents for a Democratic Societyhad roots