Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020]}**. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020]}**. That animation suggests several phases to...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...admission of powerlessness. Top and Bottom, Metal cast pieces in process for upcoming work, Florida, 2020]}**. Photographs by Forrest Lawson. Courtesy of Forrest Lawson. Lawson: Yeah, and I guess I...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...farms. They had to start all over. They had to find families to take care of all the orphans whose parents had died during the removal. During the 1860s, when...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...South. Vietnam is a prime example. "U.S. Covid-19 Cases," October 25, 2020]}**. Cartoon by and courtesy of Mike Luckovich. Events turned US exceptionalism on its head; the nation's heralded public health...
Encountering COVID
...weeks takes me into early April. In January, I had just gotten back from a wonderful vacation in Grand Cayman and I had told everybody all over holiday break how...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Though hip-hop had the loyalty of most undergraduates, my inner circle, particularly my fellow women's basketball teammates, had a deep appreciation for gospel music. On our road trips, at the...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...safeguard the private schools’ discretion to choose whomever they wish to admit as students. Already twenty-six of the fifty states have yielded to school choice advocates by enacting a variety...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...dress gone wrong, its color a bit faded and its shape a little soft. As she shakes and twirls her head, a limp lace sleeve slips down her shoulder. Instead...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...her poem "No Place," Southern Spaces, July 27, 2004, https://southernspaces.org/2004/no-place. Or maybe if Reed had read John Howard's work on the history of gay male car culture in rural Mississippi...