Lucia and Eliza—Lucy and Liza to family and friends—lived. They had met in their sophomore year when Kamilah’s cousin Lucy had gone on one of her trademark rants about the plight of Latinx women, and Liza had chimed in about the battles Black women face. Their conversation became a debate, the debate got heated, that heat eventually had them burning up between the sheets, and they’d been together ever since.

