Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photograph suggests local black resistance, self reliance, and the ways in which people in Holmes County, Mississippi, guarded their essential and beloved community center. Throughout Freedom Now!, Berger provides revealing context...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...Yes. It's so interconnected. One thing that Susan Cerulean goes into in her essay at the beginning of An Unflinching Look is that there has always been a lens—which is a...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...function in different ways. He argues that the black gospel tradition emphasizes the music's emotional soulfulness and "spiritual improvisation" while white evangelicals use gospel as a proselytizing tool akin to...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...there are slow pans to the left and right, from water to thicket, always searching for stability or familiarity in a strange and dangerous landscape. Even with the constant momentum,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...lives, the borders especially between the people we depend on in so many ways and the policies that vilify them. I now teach and write about all of this, traveling...