Alysia Harris, Author at Scalawag

Poems by Taylor Johnson, Jericho Brown, & Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "I sing and find it underlined by a beloved stranger. It's like turning the record over and knowing you're hearing what I'm hearing."

Author Archives: Alysia Harris

Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

Filming the end of a town: Environmental racism and abolition

The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

The Proof is in the West End: Dance and wellness converge at The Movement Lab

Labor and gift: the paradoxical power of the arts—our all-arts print issue

Kicking up dust: Arts, race, and place converge in Scalawag's pilot artist-in-residence program

I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

More than latitude: Ties that bind the Global South

Justice is more than a political issue now—it's a spiritual one

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