"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....
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Land We Live in, the Land We Left: Virginia’s People,” an exhibition at the Library of Virginia in downtown Richmond, curated by Lisa Goff and coordinated by Barbara Batson, draws...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Carolina and his return home to Durango, Mexico. Brother Towns examines the lives of migrant day workers and the receptions they receive moving between Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and Jupiter, Florida. In...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...response to the constraints placed upon their lives. Finally, Mary Williams' and Emily Clark's pieces vividly depict the sexual and marital cultures of Lower Louisiana, as well as the racially...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the US National Student Association. She served as an advisor on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...