Interviews & Q&A's Archives – Scalawag

Making State Enemies

by Julian Rose May 2, 2023May 2, 2023

Justice-impacted organizers know well the stakes of expanded policing. In this interview, Julian Rose talks with longtime organizer Bridgette Simpson about how Atlanta's persistent carcerality creates state enemies by criminalizing resistance.

Grief and Love, Outside the Changes

by Julian Reid February 10, 2023February 15, 2023

Why your new diet is antiblack

by Ko Bragg and Da'Shaun Harrison January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

Yellowjackets shows a world without police as disorderly. Abolitionists aren't buying it.

by Molly Lipson September 13, 2022September 16, 2022

'The imaginary line in the sand': Texas artist's installation challenges U.S.-Mexico border

by mónica teresa ortiz August 30, 2022August 30, 2022

Southern Politics

Q&A: Southern abortion providers on what the media's getting wrong

by Ko Bragg May 27, 2022May 27, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

Southern Politics

In Texas' most populated counties, people-power and political power go hand-in-hand

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Southern Politics

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

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Southern Politics

How millennial and Gen Z organizers are moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Our South: Where fiction meets reality

by Scalawag Team December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

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

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: New Orleans, plural

by Xander Peters December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022

The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

Breaking Through COVID: What data can't tell about the South's vaccine rates

by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Team September 9, 2021September 21, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

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

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021August 13, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

For Black cowboys—from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas—horses and riding are a way of life

by Nick Lehr, The Conversation July 16, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021

'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The whole hog's history

by Xander Peters June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Food apartheid, continued

by Xander Peters May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Call it what it is—Food apartheid

by Xander Peters May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021