Southern Exposure was an award-winning print journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation for its writing on a broad range of political and cultural issues in the South, with a special emphasis on investigative journalism and oral history.

On the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure’s birth, Facing South and the Institute will be publishing a full digital archive of the journal over the course of the year. The initial installment of the archives available in March 2023 includes issues from the magazine’s launch in 1973 through 1981.

Vol. 27 No. 4 - Winter 1999/2000
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Standing Out

  • From the Editor

    2

  • Letters

    3

  • C. Vann Woodward

    Remembering a rebel and the country's preeminent Southern historian

    5

  • Around the Institute

    6

  • Southern News Roundup

    8

  • The South & Seattle: Through the Teargas, We Saw Our Power

    Stewart Acuff

    16

  • The South & Seattle: Southerners Should Remember Seattle

    Chris Kromm

    18

  • The South & Seattle: Black Americans Must Be in Forefront

    Manning Marable

    19

  • The Day the Flag Went Up in South Carolina

    Bret Bursey

    20

  • Will Unions Organize the South?

    Lane Windham

    22

  • Standing Out

    Kim Diehl

    25

  • Moving Mountains for Fairness

    Karen Stults

    26

  • The State of Civil Rights

    Deb Price

    33

  • Trans Guys and Moonpies

    Matt Nicholson

    35

  • What's Sex Got to Do With It?

    Mab Segrest

    39

  • So, I Hear You're a Lesbian

    Kim Diehl

    45

  • Three Hirstories

    Akiba Onanda, Ivory Black, and Jurina Vazquez

    48

  • Spinning Out Freedom

    A poem by Cara Page

    54

  • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Resources

    55

  • Reviews

    56

  • Still the South

    Mary Lee Kerr

    70
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