Subscribe today and receive a FREE Seafood Reader tea towel, beautifully illustrated by Julienne Alexander. 🦀 Just keep those Old Bay fingers off! SUBSCRIBE: southerncultures.org/store/

Meet FRESH OR FRIED: A Southern Cultures Seafood Reader. Twelve fish(ish) tales—from harvesting wild oysters along Georgia's coast to celebrating bonefish in the Carolinas + three essential accompaniments: saltines, hot sauce, & fig cake. Read 'em all: southerncultures.org/reader/seafood/

It's here! The 30/50 Anniversary Weekend: a symposium and celebration in honor of the 30th anniversary of @uncsouth and @scquarterly, and the 50th anniversary of @sohporalhistory. Find the full schedule of events at southerncultures.org/events/30-50/ illo: Nate Beaty

NEW WEBSITE just dropped! You could say we're looking purty at thirty. 🎉 After 30 years, we have many stories to tell—find all the old favorites and a whole lot of new at the redesigned SouthernCultures.org

New Call for Papers: THE QUEER SOUTH! Gust edited by Hooper Schultz (Hooper Schultz; UNC-CH) and Jaime Harker (University of Mississippi). Deadline for submissions: June 10, 2024. Details: southerncultures.org/cfp-queer-sout…
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Image: Coming Out, courtesy of Jonathan Kent Adams.

It's finally live! So beyond excited to share this call for papers for Southern Cultures's Spring 2025 issue, The Queer South, guest edited by Dr. Jaime Harker and yours truly! It's a dream come true. Please submit!! southerncultures.org/cfp-queer-sout…

Submissions due FEBRUARY 12 for our special issue on HOME, guest edited by Blair LM Kelley, PhD
& queen of stealth. Details: southerncultures.org/cfp-home/

Introducing GOTHIC SOUTH, ed by Kinitra Brooks. This issue unpacks the South's haints, hollers, & hoodoo. Featuring a conversation w/ Jesmyn Ward & Dr. Gina Mae, photo essays by JARED RAGLAND & Kristine Potter, fiction by Rebecca Bengal & @K-Ibura, & more: southerncultures.org/issues/gothic-…

Introducing, Snapshot: Climate // Lesson Plans developed through the “Portraits of Climate Change” initiative—a collaboration between Southern Cultures, Carolina Public Humanities, & North Carolina Community Colleges. For HS & Higher Ed instructors. Learn more & request access here: southerncultures.org/article/snapsh…

'To do the work of a folklorist is inherently to believe in the future.' Folklorist, writer, @amst_unc alumna, and frequent Southern Cultures contributor Emily Hilliard will be discussing her new book at UNC Center for Study of the American South tomorrow, 9/27 at 4:30 PM. southerncultures.org/article/were-f…

'At the turn of the twentieth century, Tampa brimmed with chaotic possibility.' Read an excerpt from 'Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South' by Sarah McNamara before her book talk TODAY at UNC Center for Study of the American South! UNC Press southerncultures.org/article/ybor-c…

Busy week at CPH! We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events.

Today is the launch day of the audiobook of Blair LM Kelley, PhD new book BLACK FOLK: THE ROOTS OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS, read by Anika Noni Rose

@amst_unc @southerncultures Chapel Hill Native @sohporalhistory UNC College of Arts and Sciences Marcie Cohen Ferris

Excited to dig into the Fall 2023 Southern Cultures

I was invited by
Southern Cultures
to write an introduction to the Fall Snapshot:Climate issue, based on my experience bridging #climatescience and policy. The issue is out and you can check out all of the amazing art featured in the issue! southerncultures.org/article/making…

“...humans are inclined to overlook the overwhelming evidence of climate change—even when it arrives in our backyards and communities.”

'Making the Invisible Visible: For a Climate Future' by Angel Hsu (Snapshot: Climate issue, vol. 29, no. 3: Fall 2023). southerncultures.org/article/making…

Hope to see you at the Snapshot: Climate opening tonight at the Love House! 5-7pm. Free & open to all.

humanities.unc.edu/event/snapshot…

Tonight! Join Southern Cultures for Snapshot: Climate Exhibition, Thursday, Sept. 7. Drop by from 5-7 pm for the exhibition opening at Love House UNC Center for Study of the American South on the @UNC campus.
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See y'all Thursday, SEPT 7, 5–7 PM for📸 Snapshot: Climate Exhibition 📸 at UNC Center for Study of the American South. 60+ photographs and reflections from artists, activists, photojournalists, and scientists providing a “snapshot” at climate impacts across the South. southerncultures.org/snapshot-exhib…