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TikTok and the Appalachian Aesthetic: What the Video Platform Means for the Region
Election memes, bedsheet ghosts and whipped coffee: 2020 was a surreal year for TikTok trends. TikTok — or…
Meet the W.Va. Woman Who Took on Sexism to Break Barriers in the Legal Field – in the 1920s
This month marks 40 years since the inception of a national celebration of women’s history. Approved by Congress…
This N.C. Family Is Taking a ‘Gamble’ on Farming in Appalachia
Salvador Moreno Jr. says the only business model that comes close to his family’s work in commercial farming…
Documenting the Appalachian Intifada: A Review of ‘So Much to be Angry About’
Liberation movements around the world and throughout history have always created our own media: to tell our own…
More Appalachians Are Dying from ‘Deaths of Despair.’ And COVID-19 Is Making It Worse.
In 2015, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case reported research results that took most everyone by surprise:…
Commentary: A Coming of Age Reflection on Masculinity, Asexuality in the Mountain South
By all marks, I meet Hank Williams Jr.’s Southern standards in his famous song “A Country Boy Can…