Encountering COVID
Michelle Fishburne and her dog Buddy outside of their RV. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. February 2021. Photograph courtesy of author. Southern Spaces: Oh, here's Michelle now. Are you...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...by women and children. A giant, inflatable Mother Jones stands at a rally for union members, Brookwood, Alabama, August 4, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of William Thornton, AL.com. Truth...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...political forces that elected Donald Trump."17Chauncey Devega, "'Moonlight' and 'Loving': Film as symbolic resistance in the age of Trump," Salon, December 10, 2016, http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/moonlight-and-loving-film-as-symbolic-resistance-in-the-age-of-trump/. Perhaps what both Moonlight and Loving...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...permanent US military installation in the city). During World War I (1914–1918), the US War Department expanded the fort, with the additions of Camp Bullis, Camp Travis, and Camp Stanley,...
Our Backward Revolution
...Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House (New York: Harper Collins, 2021), 138; Peter Baker, “In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change,” New York...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
Review At the 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFCC), English filmmaker Steve McQueen was named Best Director for his stunning adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir Twelve Years...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...that left people who were unemployed or homeless without access to relief.5"Gov. Kemp Announces First Round of This Year's Special Tax Refund," Department of Revenue, May 1, 2023, https://dor.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-05-01/gov-kemp-announces-first-round-years-special-tax-refund#:~:text=Single%20filers%20and%20married%20individuals,a%20maximum%20refund%20of%20%24500. Free99fridge...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Still from The Joneses. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. Courtesy of John Howard. We approached Faction Films in London, where Caroline Spry, formerly with Channel 4, helped steer the project...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...empty rock club near the end of the film, 2014. © IFC Films. Even in moments that seemingly have little to do with Mason Sr. and Olivia's separation, Linklater is...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...on February 3, 2021 titled, "The Aids Angel: How Ruth Coker Burks Comforted Dying Gay Men." That same year, however, the Arkansas Times published a more critical piece by Austin...