The Black Trans Short Film Festival was so much more than short films
On a balmy spring day in late April, I joined an enthusiastic congregation at the Full Frame Theater in Durham, North Carolina for the second annual Black Trans Short Film Festival.
Over the past few months, we've lost critical funding because we stand in solidarity with the most oppressed. We told the truth. And that makes some people uncomfortable. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation.
Southern politics
F*ck The Fourth: A Scalawag Reading List
As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July.
Arts & Soul
Astrodome Feb 23, 2001
Even when the song competes my cotton candy pink regale keeps up the sugar stays The airs gone on the latest train to Georgia.
Race & Place
How the People's Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage
As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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