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

Whiskey and Geography

...meals, though those who could afford it also purchased imported rum and wine. Men, women, and often even children drank whiskey at various time of day, and the beverage enlivened...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...interviewed residents of small towns in the rural South who reported believing internet rumors that Obama was a Muslim. It ran with the picture of Bill Pennington, a white barber...

Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy

...Russell calls "digital orgasm."34Legacy Russell, "Digital dualism and the glitch feminism manifesto," Cyborgology 10 (2012), http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/12/10/digital-dualism-and-the-glitch-feminism-manifesto/. Smith's poetry sees potential (re)generation in what Foster Gunnison, Jr. earlier troubled: the "attempt"...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford "'The Room that We're Able to Take Up': Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic" by Eric Solomon and...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

...COVID-19 Collection Project and helped curate several exhibitions. Her areas of interest are the intersections between public health, sex, race and ethnicity, and United States culture. Steve Bransford is senior...

In the Magic City

      Birmingham The needle floats over and over     the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet,     of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...