the south

the queer south

the south

first person

“If I Don’t Say Something, No One Will”: 6 TGNC+ Perspectives on Trans Visibility in the US South

“I know we everywhere, but Black SOUTHERN people are and will always be my heart. The way we love up on each other. Take care of each other. Check up…

Nathalie Nia Faulk —

Apr 1, 2021

Dispatches from the Country Culture War

rural

culture

Juniper Moon Folk Arts: Crafters, Activists, and the Glories of Gas Station Food

During Pride month, rural queer owned Juniper Moon Folk Art is doing weekly giveaways to raise funds for black-led organizations and bail funds working in antiracism and prison abolition.

Lauren Parker —

Jun 14, 2020

Dispatches from the Country Culture War

rural

culture

Country Queers Documents the Myriad Experiences of Rural LGBTQIA Americans

“Community is a very complicated and roomy word. Rural queer people also have other layers of identity that inform their realities.”

Lauren Parker —

May 9, 2020

Dispatches from the Country Culture War

rural

culture

This Queer Ink Maker Is Using Alchemy to Turn Pain and Chaos Into Art

“Ink revolutionized our way of speaking, the ideas of the dead are recorded in ink, the dead speak through ink, it just had this really mystical element to it.”

Lauren Parker —

Apr 11, 2020

Dispatches from the Country Culture War

rural

culture

TruckSlutsMag Is Making Trucks Gay and Reclaiming Rural Queer Culture

“There are gay rednecks, there have always been gay rednecks, and there always will be too.”

Lauren Parker —

Jan 11, 2020

reproductive health

republicans

politics + activism

Georgia’s Abortion Ban Can’t Be Defeated Without Queer and Trans Black Women and Femmes

Queer and trans Black women and femmes have the blueprint to defeat Georgia’s abortion ban. Alyssa Milano… does not.

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza —

Jun 4, 2019

fatness

photography

visual art

PHOTOESSAY: Shoog & Zaire on Proving the Divinity Of Fat Folks

“I came to you in a state of exhaustion with all these things that have been weighing on me for so long and I wanted to find a way to…

Shoog McDaniel —

Feb 19, 2019

personal essay

the birthday issue

first person

How to Be a Grown Woman

“Maybe I could teach you how to do that and you could teach me a couple of things I’ve been wonderin’,” I told her. She shook my hand. It was…

Heather Hogan —

Feb 14, 2019

lesbian history

the queer south

lgbt book reviews

“The Lesbian South” Carries Lesbian History, Ideology and Gossip into the Present

Along with the Civil Rights Movement, the blues, and the Moon Pie, we also have the American South to thank for a 50-plus year bounty of lesbian literature.

fonseca —

Jan 3, 2019

but make it fashion

the south

issues

The Care and Keeping of Overalls

A lesser, straighter person might have given up the ghost at this point, but I was determined.

Abigail Armstrong —

Dec 14, 2018

people of color

personal essay

first person

Finding Roots Without Hiding My Rainbow

“We don’t talk about our roots as they relate to the heaviness of humid air recycled through our generations on swampy plantations. My family has never talked about it with…

stasia —

Oct 2, 2018

the south

playlists

Playlist: Sometimes Queer Trans Girls Find Love in the South, Too

“Country music reminds me of long drives to and away from home, of long conversations on porches with friends and lovers, of something we’re told in a million and one…

Jess St. Louis —

Oct 19, 2017