We Begin With Play: Southern Abolition in the [B]reach with kai lumumba barrow and ‘gallery of the streets’
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Ra Malika Imhotep writes on the abolitionist dreamscape of kai lumumba barrow’s gallery of the streets.
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Poetry & Playlists: chicharras
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An ode to the night and what the music can do. Jo Reyes-Boitel’s poem pulses.
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Growing Up Gay in Appalachia: Anthology Shares Poetry and Prose of a Region
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This piece was originally published by 100 Days in Appalachia. Growing up in southern West Virginia in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Jeff Mann first came to terms with his sexual identity in the pages of Patricia Nell Warren’s “The Front Runner.” His favorite teacher, who confided to him that she was a lesbian, lent him the love story about a running coach and his star athlete.
“That’s how I learned I was gay,” Mann said. “I read a novel.”
His teenage revelation helped to name a lot of things he’d felt for years, but it also meant some new, hard truths for the West Virginia boy. If he were to be honest, Mann knew, he would likely be shunned from his little hometown of Hinton, or worse. Books and stories, however, offered a safe, inviting refuge, a place to learn and relate.
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Poetry & Playlists: ‘eleventh attempt at going home’
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Mathieu conveys the (be)longing felt at times traveling and living in Latin America and the U.S. American South, and the spatiotemporal disorientations that travel can create.
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Queer love and struggle in Jackson, Mississippi
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Mississippi is home to one of the worst anti-LGBTQ laws on the books. And some of the fiercest queer organizers you’ll ever meet.