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

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...and inspiration, realizing that they were creating something that other people wanted to experience.1Aku Kadogo, phone interview with author, March 10th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. The students' performances...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...

Chattanooga, Tennessee images

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...

Stones and Shadows

...and impossible, words as grand as shadows cast by stones. He stabs at a steak with his fork and says, "This one is your mother's — she doesn't want any...

Brass Knuckles

Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...

A Mess of Poke

...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...

Work

...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...to your grandmother and ask her about her grandmother," she pleaded. Indeed, queer history is present in the way my parents reacted when I first came out, as they referenced...