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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...Society of the United States SPCA—Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Codes Elsewhere X-codes have been used in responding to disasters across the country through the years. Informal...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...markings, 2007.   The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

..."Review: 'Cruising' maps the cultural history of L.A.'s hookup spots," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-cruising-alex-espinoza-gay-history-20190703-story.htm. In short, cruising persists as a culturally relevant practice in the United States...