Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria's claim to the property, granted out of Custis's "paternal instinct," in legislation that allowed her to live out her life on the grounds until her death in 1886.2Boston Daily...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...different, and how people considered us lesser than them. College and Travel Nighttime shot of Woodburn Hall on the West Virginia University Campus, Morgantown, West Virginia, April 22, 2007. Photograph...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...of the Settlement Process." Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (1999): 238-266. As Maya immigrants increased in number and dispersed to new locations in the country, they began to organize on...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...New Lessons from an Old Exposure," American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 187, no. 11 (2013): 1178–85. Formal recognition required collective political intervention by coal miners themselves. Even as social and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...during the 1920s, see "Crime Trail Widens as Marihuana Fume Descends Upon City," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), April 21, 1929, 22, 24. New Orleans played an outsized role as the "hypodermic...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...lines of your other 2019 play Outside the Game: "history repeats itself, and it repeats itself." Bayamesa, Teatro Avante, Miami, Florida, 2019. Directed by Mario Ernesto Sánchez. Photograph by and...