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Upcoming Events

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Teaching "Introductory Seminar in Documentary Studies: Ethics and Practice"

for Center for Documentary Studies' certificate program
April 11-May 30, 2019


Read more and register here.

“I haven’t felt that level of passion for anything in a long time. I have learned so
much.” – Sandra Stinnet, Introductory Seminar student

Press about my work

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When the City of Lexington, in Davidson County, North Carolina, discovered historic barbecue pits in the middle of City Hall during a renovation, they hired the North Carolina Folklife Institute to help them document the find and strategize telling the story. It was wonderful that the city manager's office saw beyond a "promo piece" to the importance of historic documentation, including oral histories with barbecue elders. 
Lexington Daily Dispatch article about the City Hall renovation 
View the 5 min documentary here. 


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April 15, 2015 NC Now feature on WUNC-TV about the North Carolina Folklife Institute and our work to document traditional artists in Cumberland, Hoke, Robeson, and Scotland counties when I was director.


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Roger May, Tom Rankin, and I on WUNC's "The State of Things," discussing Roger's "Looking at Appalachia" documentary project, January 22, 2015


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​KeAnne Hoeg, Mandy Hitchcock, and I on WUNC's "The State of Things," discussing the 2014 Listen to Your Mother show in Raleigh. 

YouTube video of my 2014 performance, "Angel Unawares"

(and my bio for that show, which I think was the first time I was publicly "outed" as an astrologer)



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An August 8, 2012 article in the New York Times Magazine, "What's So Bad about a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?" by Ruth Padawer quoted a post from my Pink Is for Boys blog. I was also interviewed for an article in the French newspaper La Libération called "Des garçons nés dans les roses." (Here's a link and my English translation.)


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From the editor's forward to the Spring-Summer 2012 issue of the North Carolina Folklore Journal: 
In opposition to the cartoon-like images propagated through mass-media popular culture, we focus on the real human relationships that are sustained and enriched through the creative performance of tradition. . . . Folklore, for us, is something that makes us human, and so the nurturing of folk traditions—whether at work or at play-—also feeds the better parts of our human spirit. . . . The heart of this issue emerged from an initiative of Joy Salyers...

Read the whole issue online here.


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An article from early days! 

Telling stories  - Your family's history is at stake: Two local women are here to help
By olufunke moses
IndyWeek Arts Feature, January 14, 2004

I feel sadness reading this, because our dear friend Funke, who wrote this article, died in June, leaving a hole in many, many hearts. But you can see that I have believed in the power of story to promote change for a long, long time!


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