Florida Archives – Scalawag

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023March 22, 2023

The show's account of Florida's neo-Nazis and proto-fascists are sickening—and not in the fabulous drag way.

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How we save ourselves: Interventions beyond the ballot box

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022November 4, 2022

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How we build political power: Lessons from Texas and Florida organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022November 4, 2022

I grew up against a backdrop of white evangelical power. Florida's new CRT ban means even more Black students will, too.

by Sierra Lyons August 17, 2022August 16, 2022

'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults

by Rainesford Stauffer June 7, 2022August 16, 2022

Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations

by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua May 2, 2022May 4, 2022

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Florida's problems—and their solutions—are a bellwether for the South at large

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

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Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Amending Florida's constitution to save its waterways

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

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

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021March 9, 2022

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Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022

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New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021November 16, 2022

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Overdose deaths are reaching record highs in the South as COVID vaccines take priority

by Lovey Cooper September 10, 2021September 21, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Hurricane Ida: How to get and give help on the Gulf Coast

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021August 13, 2021

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In Florida, protesting can cost you your right to vote

by Sierra Lyons August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

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Democrats eventually won Black youth voters, but will they keep them?

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020December 15, 2020

A Native Crew asks: 'Whose land are you skating on?'

by Justin Garcia November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

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Voting may have ended, but the work has just begun

by Anoa Changa November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

In the quest for abolition, America must learn from Haiti

by Marina Magloire July 6, 2020July 2, 2021

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This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020

Mold, foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell apart

by Imani J. Jackson January 15, 2020October 27, 2020

Through the river: talking art, borders and identity with artist Camila Linaweaver

by Emma Speckman November 27, 2019September 16, 2020

Memory, Myth, and Legend: Missing Brushstrokes

by Allison Griner September 16, 2019September 16, 2020

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Fighting climate gentrification with a radical community garden

by Maria Esquinca February 25, 2019September 27, 2022

'I never let the viewer sit too long in one or the other.'

by Zaina Alsous August 23, 2018November 16, 2022

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Louisiana to expand voting rights for people with felony convictions

by Natalie Yahr May 21, 2018September 16, 2020