Birdhouses
...home visiting my family in South Carolina. Walking near a grapevine that my father had planted along a wire fence, I noticed that the vine's lush leaves had ensconced a...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_csc.asp. On racism and oppression in academia, see Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, "Dismantling Whiteness in Academe," Inside Higher Ed, November 10, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/11/10/how-whiteness-structuring-interactions-higher-education-essay. On...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...for a photo opportunity—an image of him holding a Bible in front of St. John's Episcopal Church—moments after DC police, reinforced by National Guard troops, dispersed peaceful protesters who had...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...had to negotiate my own identity as a child. I continue to deal with the daily onslaught of Christian pushback as a queer adult. And I think you see that...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...del mundo (Nowhere in the World) aborda el silencio en torno a la identidad sexual en Cuba (desde los años 80 hasta la actualidad), tanto como temas de visibilidad gay...
Theories of Time and Space
...on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Though hip-hop had the loyalty of most undergraduates, my inner circle, particularly my fellow women's basketball teammates, had a deep appreciation for gospel music. On our road trips, at the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...did a pig truly belong, the enslaver on whose estate it roamed, or the enslaved who had purchased it with her savings and had tended to it? Could enslaved and...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...