Cory Jevaliér France (he/they)
@coryjfrance.bsky.social
BlaQueer Folklorist. Memory Worker. Place-Preservationist. Triple Master 📚
🗺️ Reclaiming critical Black spaces and building community-centered heritage well-being in the Dirty South.
Arch. Historian - New South Assoc.📍Cola, SC
*Views are my own*
🗺️ Reclaiming critical Black spaces and building community-centered heritage well-being in the Dirty South.
Arch. Historian - New South Assoc.📍Cola, SC
*Views are my own*
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First post here. This year I received Rory Turner Prize from #GoucherCollege for Scenes at the Stakes—my work on Black cemetery citizenship at Palmetto Cemetery in my hometown, Columbia, SC. I call it stake work. Read it here: hdl.handle.net/11603/38524 #AddToBlackSky
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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ICYMI or if you’re new here: We’re here on BlueSky! Follow along and #AddToBlackSky as we amplify African American heritage and preserve the stories that matter.
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December 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM
ICYMI or if you’re new here: We’re here on BlueSky! Follow along and #AddToBlackSky as we amplify African American heritage and preserve the stories that matter.
Support WeGOJA's work by becoming a member today: www.wegoja.org/join-us.
Let’s make history and tell fuller stories, together.
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Let’s make history and tell fuller stories, together.
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‘A dog cemetery would not be treated like this’: the fight to preserve Black burial grounds in the US l The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news...
‘A dog cemetery would not be treated like this’: the fight to preserve Black burial grounds in the US
In the absence of federal oversight, Black communities band together to stave off development on historic resting places
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
‘A dog cemetery would not be treated like this’: the fight to preserve Black burial grounds in the US l The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news...
First post here. This year I received Rory Turner Prize from #GoucherCollege for Scenes at the Stakes—my work on Black cemetery citizenship at Palmetto Cemetery in my hometown, Columbia, SC. I call it stake work. Read it here: hdl.handle.net/11603/38524 #AddToBlackSky
August 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
First post here. This year I received Rory Turner Prize from #GoucherCollege for Scenes at the Stakes—my work on Black cemetery citizenship at Palmetto Cemetery in my hometown, Columbia, SC. I call it stake work. Read it here: hdl.handle.net/11603/38524 #AddToBlackSky
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we need a politics of radical inclusion cos this isn't just symbolism
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
we need a politics of radical inclusion cos this isn't just symbolism