There are a multitude of Southerness markers that Oklahoma easily meets, which leaves its status as irrefutable, for better at times and for worse other times.
Timantha Goff
Timantha Goff (she/her) is a writer, editor, and policy advocate. She has been heavily involved in community-centered journalism and writing delving into a variety of timely issues, such as environmental justice, housing inequity, police accountability, and Black maternal health. She has a special interest in exploring issues of race, gender, identity formation, and sociopolitical status by way of her personal essays, cultural criticism, and (soon) in her play and screenplay output as well.