Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...to open Pulse. In remembering him and honoring the life he lived, Poma established Pulse in 2004, named "for John's heartbeat" and a place where "he is kept alive in...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...saying what they had done, and how they would do again what they had done, because he had not given up, for he was alive, and she was alive, and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...loneliness. We end our conversation remembering and honoring the forty-nine lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting in central Florida. Convoluted Beginnings: Heterize, Placebo, "Closeted" Convoluted #2, Orlando, Florida, 2016....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...of whom live in north Alabama. Many hail from the Sand Mountain region, especially the communities of Ider and Henagar. Sacred Harp singers know the Wootten family for their distinct...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...he was murdered look back at his death and the acquittal of his killers as a formative moment in their lives, from Anne Moody to Muhammad Ali, from Stokely Carmichael...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...to form families, and had entered "the best years [of their lives] from an economic standpoint." All of them needed medical attention; none were in a position to pay. Such...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Appalachia Series. Photograph by Megan King. Courtesy of Megan King. Although most of the region's population lives in urban and suburban areas, Appalachian Studies maintains a strong rural bias. There...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...