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From heartache to hope and back again, Jahnah Camille grows
Camille's rising star and continued growth is an example of what music people like myself deeply appreciate, especially right now. There's a great satisfaction in following someone's journey and witnessing an artist's craft organically blossom.
Postscript: Abram Colby Unearthed
Last year, Scalawag published a biography of Abram Colby (1820-1872), one of Georgia's first Black legislators, whose story had been erased in the community he once served. This April, that same community erected a permanent marker honoring him outside of the county courthouse.
'Backrooms' and 'Obsession' echo our technofascist hellscape
Human art, creativity, and language are continuously bastardized and perverted by AI—largely without our permission—while these technologies are increasingly used to spy on AI objectors, replace human workers, plan military strikes, fuel ICE detention, manipulate public opinion, and facilitate genocide. And there is no regard for agency or consent, or our safety and well-being, as…
On Exile and Autonomy: Queer Kinship in 'Daughters of the Dust'
Yellow Mary is often positioned at the horizon line, bathed in warm golden sunlight. Her very presence an articulation of the resilience of Black women, navigating multiple worlds without surrendering themselves to any.
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.
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.