The Inheritance Issue explores what we have inherited, how, and from whom, reflecting on what we bring forward and what we must leave behind; what we have reckoned with and the consequences of failing to reckon. The lived experience of Indigenous people in the American and global Souths is crucial to the issue's reflections on place, identity, and ......
The Moral/Economies issue asks what is ownable, who owns, who owes, who makes, who takes, what is work, what is worth? What is a fair price, and who pays it? Is a given transaction a theft, a trade, a gift? If the arid abstraction of "economics" relentlessly flattens this complexity into two dimensions, the notion of "moral economy" demands, in ......
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.
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 ......
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 ......
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.
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 ......
The Sanctuary Issue reveals practices and places of sanctuary understood in its broadest form-as sanctified, sacred, and holy, and also as safety, refuge, haven, and relief. This issue honors survival and joy and imagines horizons toward which to reach. It asks how sanctuary is related to belonging and to unbelonging, and how each is constructed. ......
Guest edited by Regina N. Bradley, the Sonic South Issue examines sound. From Deafness to silence to a tool of liberation, "Sound is where the South can be its most complicated and unapologetic," writes Bradley, "where it can boast its plurality and multiple communities.
