WRITING

“Lady Vols Country,” in Oxford American

Essay in Southern Cultures

“Pointing a Way Forward,” Introduction in guest edited issue of Southern Cultures, “The Women’s Issue”

“A Lifetime of Labor: Maybelle Carter at Work,” for Turning the Tables, Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Culture, NPR

“The Radical History of Appalachian Women Activists,” forum response in Boston Review

“You Can’t Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women’s History,” Southern Spaces

“The Appalachian Women’s Rights Movement and the Lost Promises of Feminism,” book excerpt in Jezebel

“Why UNC’s Attempt to Restore a Confederate Statue Could Delay Final Grades,” with Sarah McNamara, Made By History, The Washington Post

Longreads feature and now a podcast episode


MEDIA

Book quoted in Jezebel article about the Warrior Met Strike

Quoted in an NPR Music article about Loretta Lynn’s legacy

Guest on Inside Appalachia, West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Quoted in an NPR Music article about Dolly Parton

Quoted in a Politico article

Guest on Essaying, with Tressie McMillan Cottom, to chat Dolly Parton

Guest on the Reckon Podcast, “What Organizing Looks Like in the South”

Guest on the the Trillbilly Worker’s Podcast

Guest on Eastern Standard with Tom Martin, WEKU

Featured in article by Heather Duncan, for Scalawag, “Mountain Justice: Appalachian Women Fought for Justice Long Before They Fought for Jobs”

Guest on Working History podcast with Beth English, “Women’s Social Justice Activism in Appalachia”

Guest on Top of Mind with Julie Rose, “How Women Drove Activism in Appalachia”

Guest on Top of Mind with Julie Rose, “How Labor Unions Changed America”

Book featured in The Cut, “There is a Kind of Feminist Revolution Happening Right Now in Appalachia”