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LNG's Quiet Colonization of Southwest Louisiana
In the past decade, Southwest Louisiana has become ground zero for the LNG boom, marketed by industry and policymakers alike as a "cleaner" bridge fuel for the world's energy transition. But for many in this region, particularly Black and Indigenous communities along the coast, the costs have been anything but clean.
Data-Mining the Plantation: Unearthing the paper trail of enslavement
Many Black Americans still labor under an enduring myth, not of their own making, that the lives and lived experiences of their distant ancestors are unknowable, lost to the grinding void of transatlantic enslavement. It's a myth underpinned by white history-making, in a land that mandated a decennial census but deliberately chose not to name…
'The Last of Us' and the Gulf South's Dystopian Collapse
The shortages, the surveillance, the abandonment of entire communities – these aren't cautionary tales; they're documentation. That's why The Last of Us, in some ways, feels less like a fantasy and more like a mirror.
Into the Thicket
Freedom Colonies are towns and communities that were founded by freed slaves after Emancipation was announced in Galveston in 1865. Before that, we know these places to be marooned communities. There are over 500 estimated Freedom Colonies in the state of Texas.
"The day of his murder is very much still alive": José Felan shares his story from the George Floyd uprisings
What happened to George Floyd can happen to anyone. The government, ICE, police, Border Patrol, etc., operate on a system of random selection. Today it happened to me, tomorrow it may happen to you. This is why it is very important to get involved. Every voice matters.
Hurricane Season
Dear bayou with the hill-topped hissing grass, dear bayou beyond the church, the bald flowers, the ant hills, and all the green lacewings mocking my curl pattern, my fuss and envy: enrage me, undo my skin from its fantasy of unit.