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Southern Identity

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Two poems: "Visiting Friends on Lake Carroll" and "What the Blacksmith Said"

by Paige Sullivan September 13, 2017December 3, 2020
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Two poems: "The Ancestral Wombyn" and "Whispers From the Womb"

by Alexandra Butler September 6, 2017December 3, 2020
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Two poems: "Muse Redaction" and "Are There Parts of You People Wear Around?"

by M'Bilia Meekers August 30, 2017December 3, 2020
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"The Deed Index Before 1963"

by Jennifer Bartell August 16, 2017September 16, 2020
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Enough with the tacos: Let's talk about the systematic obliteration of Latinx foodways

by Sandra A. Gutierrez August 15, 2017September 27, 2023
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Southern boxes

by Malorie Marshall Reid June 11, 2017September 27, 2023
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Where exactly is Oklahoma?

by Crystal Kayiza June 4, 2017October 1, 2020
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Growing up gay in Alabama and finding myself in S-Town

by Alice Lesperance May 28, 2017September 27, 2023
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Two poems: "Southern Accent" and "Emma Goldman does not confuse love and marriage"

by Zaina Alsous May 5, 2017December 3, 2020
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Two poems: Ohio River & Border State of Denial

by Jeremy Michael Clark January 25, 2017December 3, 2020
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Why is Donald Trump picking Southerners like Rex Tillerson?

by Jordan Schneider January 10, 2017September 16, 2020
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A love letter to West Virginia two months after the flood

by R. Garringer September 5, 2016September 27, 2023
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After the floods, here are the voices of survival and solidarity in Louisiana

by Claire Bangser August 25, 2016September 27, 2023
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Photo essay: Why play the Confederates in New York?

by Hannah Nemer June 10, 2016September 16, 2020
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On being half-Asian in the Mississippi Delta

by Michael Copperman June 8, 2016September 27, 2023
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Who's got the blues anymore?

by Sarah Gibson June 2, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

On being Southern and trying not to hate it

by Paula Garrett April 26, 2016October 1, 2020
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Covering the Chapel Hill shooting as a Muslim journalist

by Reema Khrais March 3, 2016October 1, 2020
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Sticky rice, refugees, and the Southern imagination

by Scalawag Editors February 4, 2016September 27, 2023
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A brief history of y'all

by Erik Lampmann August 19, 2015March 26, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Old-time Storytelling

by R. Blakeslee Gilpin July 8, 2015September 16, 2020

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