Mary Warner writes that the University of Mississippi’s firing of Lauren Stokes is an attack on constitutional freedoms.
Mary Warner
Dr. Mary Warner is a Southern Studies scholar, doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and author who spent a decade at the heart of Oxford’s cultural life at Square Books and Thacker Mountain Radio. Her work focuses on "intermedicinal" well being—a concept she coined to describe the unobstructed flow of healing between the planet, the human, and the more-than-human world. Applying the clinical focus of identifying root disharmony to the "constitutional health" of public institutions, she advocates for the preservation of narrative and relational integrity. Currently writing from abroad, she remains a dedicated supporter of Mississippi, the place that has always felt most like home.