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This couple wants you to know that conjugal visits are only legal in 4 states

by Steve Higginbotham & Jordana Rosenfeld June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

There are only four U.S. states that currently allow conjugal visits. Couple Steve Higginbotham and Jordana Rosenfeld discuss the rules strangling intimacy on the inside.

'I'll never have closure.' What TV gets wrong about having a dad in prison.

by Jordan Gass-Pooré June 20, 2022June 21, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination.

by Sherronda J. Brown April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

Losing Nanny, inheriting her home, and surviving the first year

by Maya Miller March 15, 2022March 25, 2022

Life and Death in Strawberry Land

by Autumn Fourkiller February 14, 2022March 15, 2022

Southern Politics

Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021March 9, 2022

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020April 16, 2021

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 19, 2020

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 19, 2020

Southern Politics

How Georgia's court-appointed advocates are failing children and parents

by Arvind Dilawar July 3, 2020September 16, 2020

The Remedy: Grandma Lacey's Cornbread

by Samantha Willis June 30, 2020November 19, 2020

A Love Letter to Black Queers in the Rural South

by Darius Scott May 12, 2020October 1, 2020

Losing Ground

by Alejandra Rosa February 10, 2020October 1, 2020

A letter to Black mamas

by Courtney Sebring and Aaron Bryant May 13, 2019October 1, 2020

Genesis

by Anna Sandy-Elrod February 18, 2019December 3, 2020

Family and community survival inspire delicious food at Suryana Cuisine in Clarkston, GA

by Jodi Cash August 28, 2018October 1, 2020

Like father, like son: The intergenerational trauma of incarceration

by Leroy E. Mann January 16, 2018June 23, 2021

The hands that haunt our kitchen

by Sumi Dutta November 21, 2017October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

How the criminal justice system criminalizes learning disabilities in Texas public schools

by Laura Thompson November 16, 2017September 16, 2020

"belonging: a haibun"

by Shuyu Cao October 11, 2017September 16, 2020

Northwest Louisiana Party Song

by Molly McCombs August 2, 2017September 16, 2020

Video: Meet Brigido, an undocumented farmworker trying to support his family

by William Johnston-Carter September 20, 2016October 1, 2020

Before I let go: on Houston, mental illness, and family

by Brian Foster March 22, 2016December 3, 2020

Jesus, Aunt Mary, and me

by Tom Gogola March 8, 2016October 1, 2020

Marshland: Mythmaking in the Georgia Tidewater

by Sarah Bufkin September 16, 2015December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

Hiding in Plain Sight

by David Neal July 8, 2015September 16, 2020