Southern Cultures

Meet our new music reader, "Country's Cool Again," curated by @Amammartinez. 12 classic hits from the archive + 3 new essays, this collection brings country music’s past & present together to consider why country’s cool again: southerncultures.org/reader/country… illos by @CampNevernice

COVER IMAGE REVEAL! Our special issue on Home features "Neighborhood Watch" by Kevin Brisco Jr. Learn more about Brisco's work in an essay by Aaron Levi Garvey: southerncultures.org/article/kevin-…

Before the results came in, we asked @alexispauline to offer words to share following a long, wearying election season. Her advice, drawn from the texts of Black feminist writers like Audre Lorde, is to "stay strong."⁠ southerncultures.org/article/stay-s…

NC’s rural and low-income voters are expected to have a significant impact on this year’s presidential election, as Benjamin Barber reports in today's feature: southerncultures.org/article/were-g… photo by @katemedley

Photographer Jesse Barber provides an on-the-ground look at what he's been seeing in his home of Western North Carolina. "We will put our home back together. Not by ourselves, but with each other." southerncultures.org/article/not-by…

Paddler Jim Harrison used to have one story he told to recruit students to the small school where he teaches in SWVA. "I might need a new story," he says. "I might need a new story because on September 27, Hurricane Helene ripped into Southwest Virginia." southerncultures.org/article/i-migh…

SC is Asheville bound! Join our executive ed @ayse at the Punch Bucket Lit Festival this weekend on a panel w/ @EcotoneMagazine, @greensbororevie, & @The_Rumpus at 4pm. Details! punchbucketlit.org

New call: Katrina's America, guest edited by @andydhorowitz. "Katrina does not appear to be retreating into the past so much as resounding in the future. It is increasingly clear that we live, today, in Katrina’s America." More: southerncultures.org/call-for-paper… Image: Skylar Fein

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

Don't miss your chance to submit to this @SCquarterly issue. @Amammartinez is the perfect guest editor for it - it's gonna be amazing.

Meet the SOJOURNING issue, edited by @alexispauline, @johnica, & @MichelleIsRizin. "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…

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

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!!

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 @SCquarterly to learn more about the case and its impact on the South. southerncultures.org/article/the-so…

First piece for @oxfordamerican, 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.

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…

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/

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/