Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...recollected bridges across Bayou St. John had disappeared. Street signs were nonexistent or homemade Traffic signals dangled uselessly or had been swept from tangled utility wires. The potholed streets were...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...evolved to include hanky codes, gay bar and bathhouse secret codes, and other gendered and sexualized forms of inclusion or exclusion. In a letter to the editor published in NEWSWEST,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...use of imagery has critiqued, promoted, and problematized the idea of the South and its rap music culture. Rap and Place Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of the Dirty South...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...too. We joined efforts. They brought design and carpentry skills, and I had an existing building that would serve as a fine henhouse. Since 2004, we have shared the costs,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...scholarly design team for the AmericanSouth project that was led by Martin and on which I served as project manager. We were studying how to unite materials from disparate archives...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Bob Marley," Publisher's Weekly, December 8, 2014. Cover of Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). Cover design by Gerilyn Attebery featuring...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Houston, MCA installed signs prohibiting vehicles from making turns between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. in the Montrose area. These no-turn signs restricted those cruising by car from circling legally...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...understated design "reflects the way the street was originally developed," incorporating local history into the corridor.18Crane Urban Design Team and Austin Revitalization Authority, "New Visions of East Austin: Central East...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...editor of the Tuscaloosa News ("An Office"; Hallman). It's significant that one of those hate-filled letters linked "multiculturalism" to "globalization"—and complained about the outsourcing of "good" US jobs overseas and the...