Resource Roundup #43
For the week of August 12th.
It’s Friday, I’m sitting outside at a coffee shop looking out at the lavender bushes and sunflowers, it’s 75 degrees, and I start graduate school to be a folklorist on Monday. What more could you ask for? Life is good. Most of the time.
ICYMI, the newsletter this week discussed community, art, and the end of the world. Everything you want on a Friday, right?
OUTSouth, the second largest queer film fest in the Southeast is taking place at The Carolina Theatre this weekend.
I’ll be catching L.A. Witch at The Pinhook tonight. Really into their so-called “dusty ballads and ominous invitations”.
Lee Bains and The Glory Fires played The Pinhook last night, which I’m sad to have missed. This is a great interview with Bains in The Bitter Southerner.
I’ll also be at this Oxford American Points South live recording Monday night. Space is limited, so RSVP.
Silas House always has the words I can’t seem to find:
“Often when I am on book tours, people will ask me why I choose to live in Kentucky. They find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to live in a place that films, TV shows and other media have taught them is a cesspool populated only by slack-jawed yokels. This question reveals classism and ignorance of what it means to be poor or working class, or to have an allegiance to place. Eastern Kentuckians stay for the same reasons people went back to their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy or the California infernos.
I have a deep pride in being from Appalachia despite an utter frustration at the way the region votes. You can love a place to your bones and still not completely understand it.”
I haven’t been able to get this song by Nashville-based Drumming Bird out of my head since I heard it.
This is really an incredible series on Appalachian masculinity in 100 Days in Appalachia. I love every single thing about this. Major news outlets, these are the stories we want.