Brushes with War
...she uses five well-illustrated chapters to probe other tensions. "Abolition and Emancipation" addresses black-white issues; "Wartime Photography" summarizes the interactions of painting and the expanding world of the camera. (A...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...They highlight its flow, capturing a present that passes even as the shutter closes. They evoke loss. But because a photograph exists, a former present—now past—can return again and again....
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...County High School when it was racially segregated and entered the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa a year after George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door." Here in Tuscaloosa, she...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...however, a story of queer resistance and resilience. More directly, what does such a loaded statement mean: Florida was the "Mississippi of the homosexual." Because its framing seeks to make...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...don't, don't because they know the younger vets shuck off these dark expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...deal with it. Now, that's God's will. It makes us a stronger person." Doormat from house soon to be removed from I-26, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...March on Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...by Lorde, I just finished "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" and "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." I've also been reading adrienne maree brown's...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...