People have always told the story of the queer South. Still, both silenced and emerging stories of the queer South remain to be told. In a region (and nation) where ideological battles over family life, gender, and sexual politics continue to unfold, the South is crucial terrain for doing this meaning-making as well as critically examining the ......
In a moment when the textile industry is fueled by exploited overseas labor, toxic chemicals, and artificial intelligence over craft, we ask: what is the future of textiles? Guest edited by Natalie Chanin, this issue asks how we might imagine a progressive way forward for textiles in the United States, with attention to sustainability, craft ......
Home holds dualities and contradictions: celebration and lament; threat and safety; disaster and sanctuary; stability and mobility; ownership (heirs' property) and displacement (gentrification, climate catastrophes); rootedness and migration; steadiness and instability; happy reunions and complicated returns. In this issue, guest edited by Blair ......
Building on the legacies of Harriet Jacobs's life and work, this issue explores sojourning as a creative and intellectual act, specifically engaging landscapes as experiential and revolutionary research. Guest edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Michelle Lanier, and Johnica Rivers, Sojourning considers how we reimagine and re-experience place as ......
[The South] fought, bled, and died in the fiercest battles that won us full access to the ballot," writes Errin Haines, guest editor of our special issue, The Vote. "For me, to be a southerner is to be a voter, and to be a voter is to champion the rights of all Americans." In the spring 2024 issue, we look at the vote-from the groundbreaking ......
Guest edited by Kinitra D. Brooks, this issue unpacks the Gothic South, including its haints, hoodoo, and hollers. Featuring a conversation with Jesmyn Ward, photo essays by Jared Ragland and Kristine Potter, fiction by Rebecca Bengal and K. Ibura, poetry by Golden, and more.
In more than 60 photographs, the Snapshot: Climate issue presents an on-the-ground look at climate impacts across the South. And in essays and conversations with leading climate educators and advocates including Heather McTeer Toney, James W. C. White, Angel Hsu, and Katharine Hayhoe, the issue examines how climate is "an everything issue.
In the Black Geographies issue, authors roller skate to claim space and joy, examine the role of the King James Version of the Bible in Black placemaking and meaning-making, mine the pages of literary geographer Gloria Naylor, and more. As guest editor Danielle Purifoy writes, "Black geographies urges us to reflect on, retrieve, and rebuild our ......
Rejecting the well-worn narratives of pity, scorn, othering, and medicalization that exist primarily for the benefit of the non-disabled, disabled people insist on better and richer stories about disability as a way of being and a way of knowing," writes guest editor Charles L. Hughes. "This issue is rooted in a commitment to this call.
