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

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...white capital. The film's rags and wastelands—its killing fields—become powerful emblems of the Southland's (and our nation's) commitment to toxic inequality. But something else rages in this film; it refuses...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway.        The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...

Reckoning with Enslavement

Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...