Southerners are sick & tired of being screamed at to vote out their dictators who are hellbent fascists. Do you know how hard they try? @sotreu.bsky.social@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social@authorwinifred.bsky.social@grrlysquirrel.bsky.social@lucaschurch.bsky.social@takahanazawa.bsky.social

Y'all need to keep listening to Black southerners I'm telling y'all. The slurs ain't nothing for us. You have no idea the white supremacist violence we're hardened to endure. We could share. @knilirabaj.bsky.social@grrlysquirrel.bsky.social@neonlime.bsky.social@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

This hits close to home for me because I know Henderson, North Carolina well, our babysitter lived in a trailer park there that we had fun visiting her at when I was a kid, & a Black man has been lynched in 2024 there. @markanthonyneal.bsky.social@neonlime.bsky.social@lucaschurch.bsky.social

Sblerdmommy.bsky.socialSep 13, 2024 8:56pm

“The family of 21-year-old Chicagoland truck driver Javion Magee is seeking answers from authorities after they said their son was found hanging from a tree in Henderson, North Carolina.” thetriibe.com/2024/09/fami...

Family seeking answers about death of Chicagoland truck driver Javion Magee • The TRiiBE

The family is questioning the police’s account of Magee’s suspicious death in North Carolina.

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UPuncpress.bsky.socialAug 10, 2024 4:15pm

ASA Annual Meeting 2024 attendees come see us in the exhibit hall at booth #119 and browse our new titles, backlist, and coursebooks in sociology, and pitch @lucaschurch.bsky.social your projects (he’ll be here tomorrow no thanks to 🌀 Debby!). uncpress.org/amsocassn-vi... #ASA2024

He’s not kidding btw

RIP to the best ever to do it. I usually qualify stuff like this—"most interesting," "most precise," but no. Alice Munro was the best short story writer. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/b...

Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.

Thrilled to have signed a contract with @uncpress.bsky.social@lucaschurch.bsky.social to publish my book, White Space, Black Lines: The Racialization of Free Verse in the Modernist Era!

Excited to share somthing I've been cooking up with @lucaschurch.bsky.social and our partner-in-crime David Menconi: a new book series we hope will expand and challenge the way people think about "roots music" in the US. If you're a writer working on these topics, pitch us!

A Q&A with David Menconi, editor of American Music: New Roots a New Series from UNC Press - UNC Press Blog

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new book series, American Music: New Roots. Edited by highly regarded journalist, music critic, and author David Menconi, the series will feature books tha...

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Shit this is still here I do love you all and will try to use this more