Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...questions that proved most productive in my research. But I also believed that to understand Miami's transnational history, the city's queer past needed to be in direct conversation with arguments...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
...Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. In this interview, Susannah Darrow, executive director and co-founder of the arts...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...overpass to disappear in the direction of the Mississippi, hidden by the green slope of the levee. Bridging complex machinery and a powerful river, clashing on the way with the...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Glass negative by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2016852472. Stoll directs special attention—and some of his most blistering critique—to the ideologues of capitalist...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in the case of Pruitt-Igoe, but also inflected the reception and treatment of other public housing complexes in cities across the country.1The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, directed by Chad Freidrichs (Columbia, MO:...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...and encouraged people to listen to government directives and the health workers.2A 2020 study by Afrobarometer revealed that across 34 countries in Africa, faith leaders are more widely trusted than...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Press, 2012). Castiglia and Reed identify (amnesiac) patterns of "de-generation" and "unremembering" in American (queer) culture since the 1980s. Leaving the memorial, you encounter an unexpected juxtaposition. Directly to the...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Texas State University for Negroes in 1947, and in 1951 was renamed again as Texas Southern University. Students responded enthusiastically to his direction. In March 1978, as part of a...