The Absurdity of State Republicans' 'Nuclear Family Month' Gov. Bill Lee has signed a declaration proclaiming June to be “Nuclear Family Month." The response to the resolution has been what you’d expect. People are rightly seeing this as a metaphorical middle...

I love a good column and this from @betsyphillips.bsky.social for @nashvillescene.com is right up my alley.

The Absurdity of State Republicans' 'Nuclear Family Month' Gov. Bill Lee has signed a declaration proclaiming June to be “Nuclear Family Month." The response to the resolution has been what you’d expect. People are rightly seeing this as a metaphorical middle...

@betsyphillips.bsky.social tears into TN Gov. Bill Lee's proclamation of Nuclear Family Month: "Can you even imagine the delusional gall it takes to sit in a state built through the enslavement of people talking about how Tennessee was built on one man, one woman and their kids?"@nashvillescene.com

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The Absurdity of State Republicans' 'Nuclear Family Month' Gov. Bill Lee has signed a declaration proclaiming June to be “Nuclear Family Month." The response to the resolution has been what you’d expect. People are rightly seeing this as a metaphorical middle...

Writes opinion columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Gov. Bill Lee signed a symbolic proclamation praising "God’s design for familial structure" — in a state built on slavery and facing an affordability crisis.

The Absurdity of State Republicans' 'Nuclear Family Month' Gov. Bill Lee has signed a declaration proclaiming June to be “Nuclear Family Month." The response to the resolution has been what you’d expect. People are rightly seeing this as a metaphorical middle...

I’m declaring July “For the Love of God, Get Divorced” month. My proclamation is word for word the text of the proclamation declaring June as “Nuclear Family” month.

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Indy hates me with a ferocity that confuses me but has earned my respect. How dare I come to his house and try to bribe him with treats? He fucking hates me and I will hear about it, loudly, every second I’m in his vicinity.

A Vanderbilt University Press book display that features two works by Dr. Learotha Williams Jr.

That moment when your work is spotted in the wild. As a grad student, I dreamed of perusing a book display and finding a title with my name on it.

Still, I never imagined two works being showcased simultaneously at a major history conference. 😳
#booksky
#readmorebooks

I need to go to sleep, but I don’t dare.

The Aunt B Radio Hour Nashville culture, music, news, history and hilarity with Betsy Phillips and Braden Gall

In this week's episode of The Aunt B Radio Hour, @betsyphillips.bsky.social and @bradengall.bsky.social ask: "Could Nashville make a public transit musical?" Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

The last thing that blows my mind is how the quilt moves your eye through it. On the right side, many of the motifs point you counterclockwise. On the left side, they point clockwise. She points you back to the middle, with all the appliqué. She shows you where the important stuff is.

Putting it together with the pulpit is just brilliant, since both are creating a space for encountering hopeful mystery.

I could think about this quilt for a million years and never get tired of it. This quilt is magic. Like, I don’t know the exact thing this quilt was supposed to achieve, but I see Josie’s literal handprints and one footprint and all the hearts and I know a soul-deep wish when I see it.

This quilt is amazing as is, but if you look closely, most of those pinks used to be red. A lot of the blues that would have originally been very vibrant have faded. It would have been so richly colorful back when it was made.

A patchwork crazy quilt by Josie Covington. William Edmondson’s pulpit stands in front of it.

Here’s the quilt @bradengall.bsky.social asks about having swag.

A two-story brick house with some demolition.

Here’s the discussed scary back entrance to Renraw.

Choose How You Groove Podcast Episode · The Aunt B Radio Hour · April 15 · 1h 12m

I’ve been singing “Groove is on the Bus” since we recorded.

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Many large orange, green, and blue crochet motifs.

I have a few thoughts looking at this. 1. I like the colors I dyed so much better than the colors I bought. Especially the green. 2. The oranges will even out when I get to the next skein, but it annoys me how dark the bought orange is. I’m not sure if I’m going to add the pattern’s border.

A cool poster with a poem on it. For the Abolitionist Dead by Melissa Range. It contains the line “Until the bell of Jubilee is rung, until the living pay the dead what’s owed, incendiaries, characters of flame—your story ends with freedom, or it doesn’t end.”

Sometimes we get good treats at work.

I fixed it, but Jesus Christ. How were they supposed to fill that out? Because they're 80.

I made the mistake of answering a call from my parents at work. They needed help with a PDF. After we all yelled for five minutes, I just had them forward it to me. Everyone, that god damned PDF was just two pictures of a form.

Untangling More Details About the People Nashville Enslaved What happened to Allen Beasley, a man enslaved at the city's waterworks department?

Asks columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social: What happened to Allen Beasley, a man enslaved in Nashville's waterworks department?

A smallish medium dog pants satisfied in the back seat of the car after vanquishing his thirst and his fears.

Billy Brave Boy!

I’m not saying that Billy is the bravest boy in the land, but he did just drink out of the dog park fountain as water was coming out of it for the first time in his life.

I think this is what the olds called “the blue screen of death.” My computer has displayed a screen that seems to be indicating it has forgotten how to be a computer.

“Betsy, why don’t you have your column in?”

Listening to people talk about how much it meant to them to be seen and heard by Sheri is breaking my heart in happiness.

John Lamb is here! My brain would not wrap around it when he came up to me.

Cindy Abrams, Sheri Sellmeyer, and people from the book.

We have a great crowd at the State Museum this morning for Sheri Sellmeyer’s book talk.

As usual, Walgreens continues to suck dismembered corpse dicks. And as usual, their employees save the day. Walgreens could change the world if they just let their employees run things.

Yeah. This all sucks in so many ways.

Or Trevecca, but they already got named.