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Southern Spaces

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

The Colonialist's Gaze

Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida

History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street

Lynnell L. Thomas

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

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#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives

Brittney Cooper

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Cooper speaks about the experiences of cis and transgender women in the Black Lives Matter movement, placing the #SayHerName campaign within the contexts of feminist and queer theory genealogies, as well Black activism.

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