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Thrilled that we can celebrate 2023 @macfound Fellow @ImaniPerry AND the upcoming #BalladsIssue with a look back at #Issue116 and Perry’s study of names and the storytelling songs of #OurNativeDaughters.
Read here: https://t.co/M08cITwRrh
📸 courtesy Shore Fire
Congratulations to OA contributor @imaniperry! South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation was selected for the 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction.
Read Perry’s piece from #Issue116: https://t.co/fYqMqQiD6s
📸 Sameer Khan
“Our great tragedy is abandoning our accents, / surely, our first instruments. Then our great triumph / is returning home years later to retrieve them.”
—@Poet_Major in poetic sequence “Music City” from #Issue116.
https://t.co/viaHTMwZ5p
📸 @KPotterSays courtesy @swolfprojects
“Medieval literature felt full of promise and possibility. I was busy falling in love with something, and so my glasses had a rosy fog.”
—Katherine Churchill on the complex history of medieval studies in #Issue116.
https://t.co/NQtIkMdi1L
Art: David Shrobe/@ThierryGoldberg
“I shoved her away by the shoulder, this fragile person I had always feared I would shatter, her shrapnel sticking painfully in me.”
—@CharlesRMcCrory in short story “People Change All the Time” from #Issue116.
https://t.co/tk3BUfcDfK
Art by: @fotoarttoo, courtesy @KLOMPCHING
“I imagine my dad’s brain out there with the cypress knees. The water keeps coming up and up and up.”
—@jeanriess on the loss of land & memory in New Orleans in #Issue116.
Thank you to @JuliaChildJCF for the support!
https://t.co/fID09xDqTP
Art: Nicolas Grenier/@LuisDeJesusLA
“Working with a bevel, a pear shader, and an assortment of tools, some of which he made by hand, Rembert carved and rendered the tales of his life.”
—@rebeccabengal on the leather art of Winfred Rembert in #Issue116.
https://t.co/uBVj1k97EO
Art: Winfred Rembert/@FortGansevoort
“The creation of an earthly paradise, free of exploitive labor and the capitalistic worship of techno-progress, is an act of faith.”
—@AustynGaffney on the life and work of Appalachian artist Molly Z.G in #Issue116.
https://t.co/OI7NK0DrFK
Art: Molly Z. G. /@Institute193
“I learned pretty quickly the differences in your classroom education when you live in the right tax bracket.”
—@pieceofkay on her experience w/ a school integration project in “Busing Battle.” #Issue116
https://t.co/fox4hyCPHr
Art: Dominic Chambers/@lucegallery @LehmannMaupin
“There’s a surrender to nature, and also a kind of existential purpose that emerges for me when immersed in nature.”
—Moses Sumney & @ClarissaMBrooks discuss Sumney’s concert film, Blackalacia, in #Issue116. Read the piece below!
https://t.co/ZuVVIkGkm7
Photo by: Spencer Kelly
“Gina looked around the room, taking everything in. One last look.”
—@Kristen_Arnett’s short story “Pigskin” from #Issue116 examines a character’s grief after the sudden death of her girlfriend. Read it linked below!
https://t.co/YYyKdT1mLa
Illustration by: Michelle Garcia
“There have always been other means of noting a child’s birth. Seasons, days, a name that records one’s relationship to ancestors.”
—@imaniperry meditates on the name Quasheba in “For Daughters of Southern Sundays” from #Issue116.
https://t.co/GedI9ZISPM
📸: Nadiya I. Nacorda
“They’re a reminder that in a tourist town of Spanish moss and antebellum homes, the stories we preserve reveal as much as the ones we don’t.”
—@AllisonBraden explores the FAQ box of a Savannah library in #Issue116’s “Search History.”
https://t.co/rTw2dr28O8
Art: Brian Dettmer
“Being a ‘lady’ depends on some women—many women—never gaining admission to the club.”
—@BadDebutante explores the rituals and symbols of Southern womanhood in “Miss Betty,” featured in #Issue116. Read the full piece at the link!
https://t.co/mW2PFWYXyH
Art by: Meg Griffiths
Enjoy “When the Barrios Hear Her Song” from #Issue116 by Verónica Dávila Ellis, available now on our website! https://t.co/Tc3o8EtpWe
"When the Barrios Hear Her Song" my piece on @IvyQueenDiva's voice for @oxfordamerican's 30th anniversary issue is now available online. 💅👑
https://t.co/qUARznZCmX
LATENCY IS THE NEW CURRENCY
#5G #DagAanensen #DigitalDependancy #EdgeComputing #latency #submarinecable #Magazine #SubTelForum #Issue116 #GlobalOutlook
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