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Maia Butler

Maia Butler

Associate Professor of African American Literature at UNC Wilmington; literary geographer specializing in Black women's diasporic literary geographies.

Jun 26, 2026

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It
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is.
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Now, in Louisiana, you almost don't have to do anything because of the monsoon season where you have the daily afternoon rains.
25:02
And so I find this southeast to be a little more finicky, but it is.
25:09
It's still a very good growing season and longer than an Alaskan growing season, of course.
25:15
And even like a Southern California growing season, I didn't start, okay, when I came to, Wilmington is an interesting place to be living here in the wake of the only successful coup, which involved the massacre of 1898 and the government coup.
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The demographics, it used to be the blackest city in North Carolina, where the port city that was so important during the war and for commerce in general.
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Can you think of one of the most random things that you've seen out in nature, you know, in the last, I don't know, three years?

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