Source: Movement Advancement Project. Darkest colored states have LGBT-inclusive housing protections. Source: Jeremy Horpedahl. Green metropolitan statistical areas are most affordable, blue less so, red are least.
Not too many affordable areas for LGBT people to go for non-discrimination in housing. This is a problem.
This sixth Freedom Stories discussion explores the history of a tri-racial ethnic group prevalent in Central Appalachia and the rural Southeastern United States known as Melungeons. Through performance and discussion with storyteller Lyn Ford, author and community scholar Wayne Winkler, and Anthony Mayle, Assistant Director, Marietta College Office of Diversity and Inclusion, we will examine the unique development of multiple racial identities and challenge the story of Appalachian monoculturalism.
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Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar thereβs a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris β and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, thereβs a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.
When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there? And what did life look like in such a strange geography? To find out, we teamed up with a local team in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit hole of geology and mapping along the way. Itβs a story of how continental shifts and volcanic geology came together to form a place for a group of people to call home.
We got to talk with a lot of experts along the way to make this piece. Here are links to some of their work:
Here is Ndivhuwo Cecilia Mukosiβs original paper on the Ambohiby Complex: https://ift.tt/CPheDdZ
We also spoke with Stian Rice, author of Famine in the Remaking, who helped us understand more about the history of agriculture in Madagascar: https://ift.tt/dmg4spl
Norman Thomas Uphoff at Cornellβs SRI International Network also shared more about agricultural systems and innovation: https://ift.tt/mOl9Ac5
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