How does one navigate a social world consisting of identities, facts, truths, problems and solutions constructed from the imprecise building blocks of language? What, if anything, does it mean to be gendered, racialized, aged, sexualized, oriented, mediated, penetrated, assaulted, traumatized, addicted, recovered, redeemed, educated, coupled, immigrated?

Misguided Home provides contextual details related to lyrical artifacts of 64 songs composed between 1984 and 2010; between ages 15 and 41; between HIV, AA and DOMA; between existentialism, spiritualism, solipsism, and functional contextualism; between the United States, France, Indonesia, and Canada.