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

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...at Florida International University. His first book, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, explores John Sewell's 1933 notion of Florida as "a playground for the Nation" specifically through his...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

Tarsus, Alabama It takes a while to find the place where I can hold the photograph and the mountain will finish itself, and a while until I'll let it drop...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...of the Historical Maps of Alabama Collection, University of Alabama Department of Geography. Via Wikimedia Commons. This 1818 map shows the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, with new...

In the Magic City

      Birmingham The needle floats over and over     the end of Coltrane's "Alabama," channeling in the rush of feet,     of tires wearing down into the asphalt and the...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....

A Mess of Poke

...out. In fact, if you read around, the current prevailing wisdom is that only a fool would eat poke sallet, even if you cook it over and over again. My...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...rights reserved. The publishing of a particular photograph—for example, Charles Moore's "Firemen Use High-Pressure Hoses against Protesters, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963" (24–25)—could often lead to the reproduction of that...