Resource Roundup #9
For the week of June 11th.
It’s Friday. It’s June. The sun is out today for the first time all week. The gloom is subsiding. We can do this. Yes.
A fascinating read about the “go-go genesis” history of Southwest Airlines in Texas Monthly.
Take some time this pride month to remember that the largest population of LGBTQ+ individuals lives in the American South. I’m really excited about this upcoming anthology, Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia, edited by Z. Zane McNeill and out for release next year from PM Press.
This is an incredible photo series by Michael O. Snyder in Bitter Southerner of portraits redefining what it means to be Appalachian.
This song by Cottonwood Firing Squad, an indie musician from California, is my new summer anthem. Drive to this on full blast with the windows down at dusk and thank me later.
Thinking about this poem by Linda Gregg:
I needed this advice this week. Have patience.
This really cool website lets you track where a single raindrop ends up in the United States.
Ashley C. Ford’s new memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, is already a NYT bestseller. The book follows Ford’s journey “growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.” I can’t wait to read this.
Happy pride month all. I love Boone and I love Appalshop and I can’t wait to visit this space next time I am in the mountains.
