Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...really parts at all because they all come from within the mind of the mentally handicapped Benjy. While Franco likely won't (and probably shouldn't) try to simply mimic this on...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...characters. For example, although the bartender-manager was historically a gay white man in "a gay white man's community," he "was known to be especially friendly to all comers," regardless of...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...from Jim Crow danger on more than one occasion for her, particularly as "racially 'mixed' teams" of WPA field researchers "travelling together were virtually unheard of." For these reasons, her...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...instance, posing in explicitly sexual postures with the statue. Rooks's point is especially well taken not only for its crucial political dimension, but also in that, as I argue, the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...that accompany filmmaking. Independent documentaries typically have at least a fifty-to-one shooting ratio—that is, for a finished work that is one hour long, acquired footage is usually more than fifty...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...or horror-comedy fans, consider Eli Craig's 2010 film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, currently available on Netflix. It hilariously explores the trope of the killer hillbilly in horror movies by...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...the living exponents, and certainly still the most active, of a truly wonderful blues tradition that is unique to the southwest region of Georgia. But, unusually, not only is she...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...into filming these clips and his choices for constructing and editing this documentary. Bronzeville "Bronzeville," Video excerpt from Goin' to Chicago, a documentary film by George King, originally broadcast on...