Scalawag – Reckoning with the South

Southern politics

Mutual aid strengthens ATL's abolitionist organizing work

How care work and solidarity economies sustain the #StopCopCity movement and prepare us for a new world.

The practice of mutual aid enables movements to resist and transform oppressive systems and conditions. With enough momentum, it can also carry us through climate change "as we approach the end of this world as we know it and the start of another."

by Julian Rose

Arts & Soul

Sister Sister

Episode 2 of 'Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon,' Season 1: Wailing Women.

No woman makes it through life without a sister. Through faith, family, and struggle, we inhabit a deep solidarity that allows us to hold one another close, even at the very end. Nnenna Freelon walks us through her journey of losing her sister, Debbie.

by Nnenna Freelon

Race & Place

From Katrina to Maui, Disaster Capitalism continues to exploit across many 'Souths'

How the state erodes the right to land and cultural preservation in the face of environmental threats.

New Orleans native and storm survivor Cierra Chenier reflects on how state abandonment and exploitation after Hurricane Katrina provided a new blueprint for neoliberal crisis mismanagement—evident in the insufficient response to the Maui wildfires.

by Cierra Chenier

In Georgia, we need proactive—not reactive—mental health support in schools

by Mira Ugwuadu

Young people struggle within a capitalist, ableist system. We can change it.

by Marrow Woods

LGBTQ+ students in Tennessee have never been more terrified

by Lauren Barton

For LGBTQ+ young Kentuckians, community matters for mental health

by Ray Loux

The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman

When Grief Speaks

by Nnenna Freelon

Despair, Hope, Emancipation: A Story from Parchman State Penitentiary

by A Mississippi Collective

In paintings: Life, Death, Carcerality, and the Pursuit of Abolition

by Obie Weathers

What living through COVID in jail taught me about abolition

by David Campbell

On the execution of my friend, Kelly Gissendaner

by Carla J. Simmons

To dream, or not to dream: Friendship, innocence, and redemption on Death Row

by Alim Braxton and Sabur Tyler

"Pull up your pants or go to jail!"

by Justin A. Davis

Long reads

Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens

'From the moment of birth, Palestinians must contend with being criminalized for existing.'

by Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer

How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

Atlanta's YSL (Young Stoner Life) project has been about place-making as much as it's been about making music. But what happens when the state interferes?

by Justin A. Davis

Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

The ongoing YSL trial that swept up a suite of Atlanta rappers from Young Thug to Gunna reveals how gentrification under the guise of urban renewal and the police state sustain each other.

by Justin A. Davis