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

When the Border Crossed Me

...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature...

Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love

...and therefore, "there is a clear relationship between tolerance and openness" about one's sexuality.7Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men Are Gay?" Stephens-Davidowitz buys into a narrative with a history. Mississippi has...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...they are often given few opportunities to better understand its complicated past. Cuban refugees aboard the Captain Preston who came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift, Miami, Florida,...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality," she writes.9Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the...