Synopsis: Whose stories count in the South — and who gets to tell them? This week, we’re talking to Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, a social worker and author in North Carolina who writes about people in the rural and small-town South. She has a lot of insights about the importance of storytelling in Southern culture, and the absence of many voices in official narratives. And after last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, we take a step back to consider the arc of LGBTQ rights in the South since the landmark Obergefell ruling in 2015. Southern states have been in the lead on attacks on the rights of transgender people, and have continued to push to marginalize queer people in general in various ways. In our arts and culture segment, we catch up to the fantastic Mississippi Gospel-soul band Annie and the Caldwells.

Show Notes: Working Class Storytelling by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton “Every Anti-LGBTQ Bill Defeated” Equality Florida “Southern Baptist Delegates Call for Reversal of Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage” Associated Press

Annie and the Caldwells

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