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

Letter: Blues

...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...

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...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...students and schools, and Sisimpur was also warmly received by parents and teachers. Unfortunately, this project began halfway through BRAC's wider Covid education initiatives, and needed more time and closer...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....

Failed Memory Exercise

...Those things that wore away and primed a vacancy. But he sat there while my distant cousin shined his shoes, And then he simply walked across Main to the depot,...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...tons of toxic coal ash from wet-storage impoundments near the Wateree River. The company must move the coal ash into lined landfill storage away from the river or have it...