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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...into and out of Virginia pre-dated and paralleled the early colonists'. Pocohontas, for example, was preparing to return to Virginia when she died in England. Had she lived longer, her pattern...

Another Failed Poem About the Greeks

His sword dripped blood. His helmet gleamed. He dragged a Gorgon's head behind him. As first dates go, this was problematic. He itched and fidgeted. He said Could I save...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...he had a lunch date with childhood neighbor Angela Davis. Acknowledgements Special thanks to Jeff Drew for treating strangers like neighbors and taking the time to share his essential story....

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

...Environments and Ecologies Indigenous Souths Queer Souths Reading and Writing Souths Religion Social Memory and Memorialization Southern Screens Southern Spaces will update our educational resources as we publish new scholarship,...

Image Credits

...by Flickr user Fibonacci Blue. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Prep pill. Image is in the public domain. Queer Nation logo. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain....

Nigger Street 1937

...those coming to town on Saturdays and red like the three ball     solid red in the side pocket at the Blue Moon and red like the eyes of those...