Rebekah Barber | The 19th

Mandy Carter, co-founder of Southerners on New Ground (SONG), reflects on 30 years of queer liberation organizing — and says people shouldn’t write off the region. SONG got its start in North Carolina.

As North Carolina's highest court rehears cases on voter ID and gerrymandering that it decided just last year, a Democratic justice brings her personal and professional lives to bear.