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

Inside Poor Monkey's

...year round, and tinsel in multiple lengths and shapes hangs from the ceiling. Walls are carpeted with photographs of images ranging from school graduation to promotional shots of strippers. Stuffed...

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

...there are Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. For many years when...

How I Shed My Skin

...who spoke back to him with such confidence) has conspicuously dropped out of the narrative, even as Grimsley documents a tentative multiracial circle of friends. At Jones Senior High, black...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...

Off-Season

...the city sprawled out like scattered masonry and split rails, Raleigh, smoked factory winds and speak easy halls. A white chicken fell off a Tyson rig, just a bit ahead...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can.  The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...

Darkly

...I can sit beside them hardly out of place, then watch them rise and part the city's yellow crape of light, and then a door I can open to follow...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...MD; Berkeley, CA; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Honolulu, HI; Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Miami Beach, FL; New York City, NY; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, ME; Providence, RI;...