Literature Archives – Scalawag

MEDIA, CULTURE, & MEANING

The erosion of critical thought and media literacy's decay in the bowels of fascism

by Sherronda J. Brown June 2, 2026June 3, 2026

During a time of intensified repression, disappearing archives, technofeudalist AI expansion, and the suppression of human creativity, the decay of critical thinking portends the fascist rot at the core of our society.

The Louisville Art Workshop

SCALAWAG UPDATES

Southern Cultures: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 30, 2025December 29, 2025

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The Parables Are an Autopsy

by Sol Elias November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

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Recipes

by Sherronda J. Brown November 5, 2025November 5, 2025

MEDIA, CULTURE, & MEANING

Haints and Sinners: A Southern Gothic and Hoodoo Media List

by Sherronda J. Brown October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

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MEDIA, CULTURE, & MEANING

The Marvelous Pessimism of Octavia Butler

by Nicholas Brady October 27, 2025October 30, 2025

Coal Creek

An excerpt from "Trouble! At Coal Creek"

by Austin Sauerbrei July 29, 2025July 30, 2025

A collage of repression at pro-Palestine protests at Tulane in Spring 2024

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Tulane Book Festival, sponsored by friends of Netanyahu

by Drew Hawkins and Delaney Nolan September 26, 2024September 27, 2024

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Southern Truth About Communism

by Tea Troutman and Sherronda J. Brown April 23, 2024December 26, 2024

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

by Kahlia Phillips March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

Banned Kamp: All Boys Aren't Blue, by George M. Johnson.

The queer survival and coming-of-age book I needed as a child

by KB Brookins November 14, 2023November 14, 2023

The perfect present for my Black and trans inner child

by Kelsey Smoot August 25, 2023November 13, 2023

"What Things Cost: An anthology for the people." Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul. Published by The University Press of Kentucky.

An anthology for people over capitalism

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 19, 2023July 19, 2023

State conspiracies and censorship of the incarcerated in prison.

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Conspiracyz, Scum Pigz, & the Dept. of Censorship

by G. Z. June 21, 2023September 27, 2023

The cover of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, "motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life."

Altars for the alter-life

by mónica teresa ortiz May 16, 2023November 13, 2023

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023November 21, 2023

How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023November 21, 2023

How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023November 21, 2023

Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.

Oshun's Suicide, Part II: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture

by Jordan Mulkey April 21, 2023November 21, 2023

Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.

Oshun's Suicide: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture

by Jordan Mulkey April 19, 2023November 21, 2023

Black Poetics and the Captive Maternal: Joy James asks poets to confront Black violence, using poetry as a means of survival and liberation.

On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023November 21, 2023

Reproductive justice and the fight for bodily autonomy in the state's war on Black women's abortion “rights,” labor, bodies, and caretaking.

Reflections on Reproductive Justice and the Captive Maternal

by Breya M. Johnson April 12, 2023November 21, 2023

Black educators' undervalued labor and the need for community support and Revolutionary Love against schooling-as-colonial-indoctrination.

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023November 21, 2023

From Caretaker to Rebel: The dialectical relationship between Black motherhood and captivity and the role of love as a tool of political will.

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023November 21, 2023

Da'Shaun Harrison on death and revolution in the struggle for freedom. Dying is a part of struggle. Revolutionary Love is the catalyst.

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun L. Harrison March 31, 2023November 21, 2023

The Captive Maternal's Revolutionary Love. The transformative power of Black love in the face of oppression.

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023November 21, 2023

Why your new diet is antiblack

by Ko Bragg and Da'Shaun L. Harrison January 3, 2023December 1, 2023

Bookmobiles to the rescue

by Leticia Urieta September 20, 2022December 4, 2023

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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022December 5, 2023

Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022December 5, 2023