In “The White Christian and His Conscience,” Lillian Smith breaks down the ways that religion, specifically Christianity, works to maintain power and how it causes individuals to lose their conscience, causing them to live, ostensibly, with the warring teachings of Jesus and the white supremacist society they exist within. Smith, also, presents readers with analogies between Southern white Christians and Nazi Germany, at one … Read More We Must Transform the World!
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“Politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes this sentence amidst thinking about a school district in South Carolina debating whether or not to ban his book Between the World and Me and to fire the teacher, Mary, who assigned it in her Advanced Placement English course. As I reread The Message alongside Kristen Ghodsee’s Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from … Read More Why Do You Fear Education?: Why We Must Imagine a New World
Last year marked some major anniversaries from Lillian Smith: the 80th anniversary of her first novel Strange Fruit, the 75th of her memoir Killers of the Dream, and the 70th of her memoir The Journey. Over the course of the year we have done numerous things to celebrate these anniversaries, including events such as “Celebrating Lillian E. Smith” in the spring and articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Augusta … Read More Lillian E. Smith: 80th Anniversary Exhibition
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On my social media feeds over the past year, I have seen individuals post about the fact that the individuals who screamed at students outside schools in Little Rock, Memphis, New Orleans, and elsewhere don’t want history taught because it will illuminate their actions. I understand this argument; however, what I’m more interested in the ways that white supremacy, patriarchy, and other ideoligies get … Read More The Spreading Disease and the Creation of Monsters
Twenty-six years ago, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson murdered Matthew Shephard in Laramie, Wyoming. On October 6, 1998, they beat him and left him strung to a fence for eighteen hours until someone found him. Six days later, Shepard died at a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. McKinney and Henderson were charged with first-degree murder, and the case drew attention to anti-LGBTQ violence and … Read More “Who are we?”: What do we see when we confront our reflections?
Interminable Rambling 