Taylor Shelton

Just put on my gravestone, "Do tenants search the nation for housing?! Do they?!"

While we're naming rivalry games after extractive industries, should Kentucky and West Virginia start playing one another annually for the honor (?) of taking home The Black Lung?

Can anyone give me advice on how to become a consultant for film and TV so that they don't make egregious mistakes when talking about academia? A little would go a long way

NEW: Most renters are cost burdened, spending at least 30% of their income on housing. Congress should work to pass a universal cap on annual rent increases at 3% or .75% of the local Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower. climateandcommunity.org/research/nat...

@natemillington.bsky.social

Thanks to GSU historian Marni Davis’ new article and map, you can now take a step back in time to 1896 to explore the state of Atlanta's immigrant population long before Atlanta developed its reputation as a destination for newcomers. Check it out 👇 atlantastudies.org/2026/07/21/i...

This docuseries made me cry my eyes out for like an hour

Don't be fooled by the rumor that AMC is starting showings of The Odyssey at the stated time. It's just a ploy to make sure you sit through the full 30 minutes of previews, as I am currently doing thanks to my gullible wife.

ngl I'm starting to get pretty annoyed by press conferences and headlines touting a bill that has so many loopholes as to be completely meaningless when it comes to reining in corporate landlords

"Contemporary rental housing is not priced by a simple, competitive consumer market. It is a financial asset class, financed through commercial mortgage-backed securities valued on projections of future rent growth rather than on what tenants can afford."

And yet I've been told that renting from a large corporate landlord is amazing and we shouldn't be worried about scrutinizing their business practices or market power!

I would love for any of the YIMBY dipshits who refuse to acknowledge the potential existence of housing market concentration to define for me anything they might consider a useable proxy for a housing market or submarket. Best I can tell they don't think these exist either?

NEW: Can landlords act as a monopoly? We're about to find out: A merger between two real-estate behemoths is set to put nearly 200,000 apartments in the hands of one company. (🧵) inthesetimes.com/article/real...

my own mom is a walking obituary column

“Supply solutions do not ask who will occupy new units, on what terms, and with what legal protections. But these questions determine whether increased housing supply actually improves the lives of the people most impacted by the housing crisis.”

Set against the backdrop of present day fights over extending Atlanta’s tax allocation districts, Wiggins’ piece calls into question whether these public-private partnerships have ever been able to deliver true benefits for the Atlantans most in need. Be sure to give it a read!

In this excerpt from her recent book "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism", historian @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social excavates the history of mayor Andrew Young’s introduction of enterprise zones into the City of Atlanta. atlantastudies.org/2026/05/25/t...

We’re very excited to share our first ever “visual note” publication in Atlanta Studies, by GSU master’s student Aaron Pacheco! This note focuses on mapping the oft-overlooked impacts of toxic pollution on suburban Atlanta’s growing Latinx communities. atlantastudies.org/2026/04/27/m...

Only one of these two is *actually* from Kentucky (thank god)

"...There will be fewer maps in any future ads, he said." He knows the maps make people realize how much this connected surveillance network blankets neighborhoods. People want to think of it as THEIR camera on THEIR door and connected to nothing, but it's not.

Many thanks to all who have already submitted proposals for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! However, in order to maximize participation in this year's symposium, we are extending the abstract and session submission deadline by TWO WEEKS to Friday, February 27th!

There are literally more surveillance cameras in Atlanta (124.14 per 1000 people) than people aged 65 and over (123 per 1000 people) according to the 2024 U.S. Census population estimates

Really excited to share my latest paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social on mapping (a more expansive understanding of) absentee housing ownership in Atlanta! 🗺️🏘️📌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Five classes I took in college? * Dinosaurs and Disasters * Appalachian Music * The American City * Google Maps and the Geography of Information * Civil Rights Movement in the US since 1930 I'd put my little state school education up against just about anybody's.

📆🚨 REMINDER ⏰⚠️ Abstract submissions for the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium are due in EXACTLY ONE MONTH! Be sure to submit your proposal for a paper, poster or organized session by February 13th! More info at the CFP below 👇👇 atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎 Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...

As we ring in the new year, it's time to recap all the excellent Atlanta-focused scholarship from 2025 that was published outside of our own (virtual) pages! Catch up on all that you missed throughout the year with our annual round up here: atlantastudies.org/2026/01/01/s...

We are especially excited to welcome @brian-goldstone.bsky.social & Augustus Wood to deliver the keynotes at this year's symposium, sharing their respective work documenting the resilience & resistance of Atlanta's Black working class, who have long been left at the margins of Atlanta scholarship

We are excited to announce the 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held Thursday, May 14, 2026 at Georgia State University. More information on the symposium and how to submit your abstract or session proposal is available from: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...

I wonder if Santa knows the locations of all 60,000+ surveillance cameras the Atlanta Police Department has access to? Maybe he can give that data to the public as a kind of collective Christmas gift?

This line from the NYT piece about college radio is deeply ironic to me in particular, as one of my recurring nightmares involves being mortified at forgetting how the radio equipment works and leaving extensive amounts of dead air time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

the assholes at APD are really trying to piss on our heads and tell us it's raining

ngl it's pretty sick to wake up and be represented by a socialist on the Atlanta city council

Got an email about a workshop at work entitled "AI in the Classroom: What’s Possible, What’s Ethical, What’s Next?" afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain

Did you know that the Atlanta Braves' move to Cobb County in 2017 wasn't the first time the suburban county tried to lure a professional team with the promise of a new stadium? Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history! atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...

I think I'm in favor of disbanding the University of Kentucky football team. Would make my life a lot simpler, I know that

My current council representative doing this bullshit on the same day I get campaign lit from one of the dumbasses running for my new district that touts more surveillance cameras as a top campaign plank 🙄