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West Virginia

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A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

Southern author Anjali Enjeti interviews queer Indian-Appalachian writer Neema Avashia about her debut memoir and the need for intersectional literature about the Mountain South.

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Overdose deaths are reaching record highs in the South as COVID vaccines take priority

by Lovey Cooper September 10, 2021September 21, 2021
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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
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Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021
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The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021
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After coal and COVID-19, Appalachia needs more than a one-time check. Universal Basic Income could be next.

by Laura Harbert Allen August 4, 2020November 21, 2023
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Drive-in wrestling: West Virginia's solution to pandemic cabin fever

by Emily Allen for WVPB July 31, 2020November 21, 2023
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Failure was what I needed most

by Diana Clarke December 10, 2018October 1, 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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What West Virginia is saying at the polls

by Jedediah Purdy May 11, 2016September 16, 2020
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To stay in the loving arms of our mountains

by R. Garringer July 29, 2015October 4, 2021

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