#the south
Dinner dress. In jaquard-woven silk, with machine lace, silk ribbon, whalebone support (c. 1890-1895)
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Photo: Delacroix-Like Dance
Photographer caption: A group of cowboys takes to the dance floor at Club Black Castle in Ruleville, Mississippi.
Photo by Rory Doyle (Cleveland, Mississippi); Ruleville, Mississippi
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Belle Meade plantation house outside of Nashville, with authentic Civil War bullet holes in the columns!
Nashville, TN
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Racist fucking oogle
That’s my home girl and if you had some sort of integrity you wouldn’t be a hitch and hide behind the internet you are or some pc housey oogle and quit your pitching , why are you even looking at this site ? Ashley will laugh when she sees this
Guys I’m a racist lololololol
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Stifling hot summer in the French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana. July 2016.
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Color in New Orleans, Louisiana, Pt. 2. June 2016.
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Two years ago, I sat across from someone in a light-filled, commercially decorated room in Inverness, Alabama and said “I’m going to do X, Y, and Z, and then I’m moving to New Orleans when my lease is up.” That someone looked at me with pride, and simply said, “that’s great.” ⇨ Read more on therisingcrescent.com.
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Color in New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2016.
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Oak Alley Plantation. Vacherie, Louisiana. March 2016.
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Garden District growth. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2016.
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‘We Are Everywhere’: A Reading List for the Queer South
June first marks the beginning of Pride Month! To celebrate, Spencer George curates a list of seven pieces that range from a celebration of the work of gay photographer Jack Robinson to deeply personal essays about lived experiences in the Southern United States.
In popular culture, the stories I saw of Southern queerness often involved leaving. Queerness in these narratives was a secret shame, one that, if revealed, led to loss and disappointment. If there were happy endings to these stories, it was only because the characters left everything behind, escaping to distant metropolises where they could begin anew. There seemed to be no bridge between lives once lived and futures where the possibility of joy existed. Most of all, there seemed to be no way to have that joy without removing oneself from home entirely.
I often think that I would have come out years earlier if I had been able to see myself represented in different ways. If I had witnessed queer characters fall in love and thrive and build lives — joyous, wonderful, full lives — in the places they are from.
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