Review Archives – Scalawag

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

For something realer than any episode of Orange is the New Black, check out Teleway 411, a new podcast on queer life in prison from A.B.O. Comix.

Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 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

Taken outside the changes

by Julian Reid December 8, 2021December 8, 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 rest of the world tells us that these bodies are killing us'

by Ko Bragg September 2, 2021January 20, 2022

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

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

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

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

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

From Appalachia to Outer Space: The beauty and the limits of perspective in Portraits & Dreams

by Kim Kobersmith December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

Sasha Rewrites Uhmareka

by Jamara Wakefield September 22, 2020December 3, 2020

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 12, 2020December 3, 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem: 'How do you maintain your tenderness?'

by mónica teresa ortiz June 24, 2020December 3, 2020

Arts & Soul, Race & Place

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020October 21, 2020

Ballad of a Land Man: Kentucky theatre takes on fracking

by Kim Kobersmith June 3, 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

Southern Politics

Fighting voter suppression in the South will make or break the 2020 elections

by Anna Simonton October 9, 2019September 16, 2020

In the living room with Aretha and James and C.L.: Review of Amazing Grace

by Antonia Randolph September 9, 2019March 26, 2021

How Lil Nas X started a Viral Revolution

by Luna August 26, 2019September 16, 2020

The Bell Cannot be Unrung: Intimacy and Witness in the Art of Jenny Fine

by Julie Anton July 1, 2019September 16, 2020

'We are each other's magnitude and bond:' a review of Santuario

by Diana Clarke June 10, 2019December 3, 2020

'Two more plantations still standing:' a review of Edgecombe

by Adam Padgett June 3, 2019September 16, 2020

Abolitionist Global Funk Visual Opera

by Ra Malika Imhotep April 22, 2019June 23, 2021