Call for Papers: THE QUEER SOUTH! We're accepting submissions through June 10 for this special issue, guest edited by Hooper Schultz (Hooper Schultz) and Jaime Harker: southerncultures.org/cfp-queer-sout… Image by Rae Garringer, from "Country Queers in Central Appalachia" (Spring 2017).

So excited for this issue! Also wild to see this pic pop up on twitter this morning. Summer 2013, flowers from my garden in the kitchen of the house where Country Queers: An Oral History Project was born. It's the inspiration for the Country Queers book cover & I re-shot a similar image just yesterday.

Read Rebecca Bengal's story "Blood Harmony" and view Kristine Potter's photo essay from "Dark Waters" in today's feature: southerncultures.org/article/blood-… Photo: "Balladeer 1 (2022)" by Kristine Potter, from Dark Waters.

You can now read my short story "Blood Harmony" in full at Southern Cultures , from the print Gothic South issue, w/Kristine Potter's photographs, including this one, 'Balladeer.' Originally published in Kristine's monograph Dark Waters (Aperture) southerncultures.org/article/blood-…

Four issues for forty-four dollars! Subscribe now and get a free Seafood Reader tea towel illustrated by Julienne Alexander: southerncultures.org/store/ Upcoming issues: Sojourning (Summer), Home (Fall), The Future of Textiles (Winter), and The Queer South (Spring).

"We cannot and do not have to be the catcher of all we consume, but the deeper our involvement in the origin of our meals the more fully we feel connected to place, to water...." Read "Food Matters" by Tom Rankin: southerncultures.org/article/food-m…

I recently published an article in Southern Cultures about a group of Black women in rural MS who started a sewing co-op to protect voting rights When threatened by the Klan, they worked with a NYC woman to construct a fireproof building Story here: southerncultures.org/article/blocks…

Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue, guest ed by Corey J Miles⁠. "The hip-hop South waits for no one.⁠ André '3000' Benjamin didn’t wait for acceptance when he declared 'the South got something to say,' & for the 30 yrs since...the region has spoken." southerncultures.org/cfp-hip-hop/

CFP: In the South we snap our fingers. We trap. We got crunk in our system. We ride and swerve. Submit now for the Hip-Hop South issue with Southern Cultures. We seek work that willingly grapples with the South as a site of creative resistance. southerncultures.org/cfp-hip-hop/

Meet us in Machipongo! Join @scquartely staff on the Eastern Shore next week as we celebrate the exhibition opening of Snapshot: Climate at the Barrier Islands Center. Opening reception: Thursday, June 13, 4–6:00 PM⁠ southerncultures.org/events/snapsho…

Overwhelmed by the sheer number of submissions to @scquarterly Queer South issue. So pleased (and vindicated) that so many people have so much to say. Can’t wait to dig into this work!

Reposting this because we want the hotness for this special issue celebrating southern hip hop and the 30th anniversary of André Benjamin declaring "the south/souf got something to say!" We outchea and ready to eat. Please share and submit!

On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, weakening a crucial civil rights law. Read Ben Barber article from the Spring 2024 issue of Southern Cultures to learn more about the case and its impact on the South. southerncultures.org/article/the-so…

First piece for Oxford American, and I’m honored the folks at Freedom Org let me write about their really important work building food sovereignty on land most U.S.-ian farmers wouldn’t touch—the floodplain. Black folk never get the “best” land, but they do the most with it.

y’all still have time to get your essays, photos, & other pieces of art in for the Hip Hop South issue. we wasn’t quiet 30 years ago & we aint quiet now. we making noise with this one!!

There's still time. Submissions for the Hip-Hop South due August 19!

Meet the SOJOURNING issue, edited by alexispauline, Johnica Rivers, & Michelle Lanier. "What you cannot know at the beginning of a sojourn is who you will be on the other side. This is what we want for you." southerncultures.org/issues/sojourn…

…And the heat keeps rising over at Southern Cultures! New CFP on Country Music Mythologies. Calling all country music listeners, theorists, advocates, and critics! This one’s for you…

Don't miss your chance to submit to this Southern Cultures issue. Amanda Marie Martinez is the perfect guest editor for it - it's gonna be amazing.

So excited to announce our call for papers for a special issue on Country Music's Mythologies, guest edited by Amanda Marie Martinez! Details here: southerncultures.org/call-for-paper…