Overview

Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US. ""all across this continent since before it was colonized."" After years as a DIY, minimally funded, community-based oral history project, the work now takes a new form in Country Queers: A Love Storya book of full-color photos and interviews with rural folks from Mississippi to New Mexico and beyond, with Garringer's account as traveler and interviewer woven through the pages. In these intimate conversations, we see how queerness-shaped, as all things are, by race, class, gender, and more-moves in rural and small-town spaces, spotlighting how country queers make sense of their lives through reflections on land, home, community, and belonging. While media-driven myths suggest that big cities are the only places queer folks can find love and community, Country Queers resists that trope by centering rural queer and trans stories of the joys, challenges, monotony, and nuances of their lives, in their own words.

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Author:   Rae Garringer
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888902929

Pages:   208
Publication Date:   08 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial Note Foreword Preface The First Year: 2013 Elandria Williams Knoxville, Tennessee Sam Gleaves Wytheville, Virginia “Frances,” Western Massachusetts The Summer Road Trip: 2014 Mason Michael, Southern Mississippi Sandra Vera, Lake Jackson, Texas David Rodriguez, Bastrop, Texas Allie Gartman, Big Spring, Texas Crisosto Apache, Denver, Colorado Wil Garten and Loring Wagner, Edmond, Oklahoma Crystal Middlestadt, Ribera, New Mexico Twig Delujé, Pecos, New Mexico Cameron McCoy, Boone, Colorado The Overwhelm: 2015–2019 Sharon P. Holland, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Robyn Thirkill, Prospect, Virginia Tessa Eskander, Cookeville, Tennessee Silas House, Berea, Kentucky Dorothy Allison, Guerneville, California The Pandemic Era: 2020–2023 Penny Logue, Westcliff, Colorado Suzanne Pharr, Little Rock, Arkansas Kijana West, Cumberland, Maryland Ty Walker, Cumberland, Maryland Kasha Snyder-McDonald, Charleston, West Virginia Postscript: “A Wholeness to Our Lives” a conversation between hermelinda cortés and Rae Garringer  Acknowledgements

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Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on S'atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Shawandasse Tula (Shawnee) homelands. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. Their writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Cultures, Scalawag Magazine, Appalachian Review, and beyond. When not working with stories, Rae spends a lot of time failing at keeping goats in fences, swimming in the river, and two-stepping around their trailer.

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