Makaelah Walters

Makaelah is a writer for Facing South, an online magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies. She is the institute's 2022 Julian Bond Fellow. Previously, she was a reporter for the Wataug

Makaelah Walters writes about

Bodies, Gender & Health Culture, Media & Education Bodies, Gender & Health State Power Land, Labor & Extraction State Power Borders & Empire State Power

Schools brace for programs to dissolve as emergency relief funding dries up

Makaelah Walters
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Trans people are taking care of their own

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Caregivers on the front lines of Chicago’s abolitionist movement

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Universal basic income eases caregiving after incarceration

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How human rights and immigration advocates are challenging discriminatory utility policies in the South

Tina Vásquez Makaelah Walters
How human rights and immigration advocates are challenging discriminatory utility policies in the South