To Belong Here

A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers

Buch | Hardcover

112 Seiten

2025
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-1-9859-0182-7 (ISBN)

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Appalachia has long been flattened into a white, Christian, and conservative place. While many Appalachians embrace those labels, they fail to acknowledge the presence of communities of color and of queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people across the region. Religious fundamentalism, white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia continue to oppress queer and gender-expansive Appalachians, especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. These realities have adversely affected queer and trans folks' ability to claim their rightful places within the region. To Belong Here delves into how queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian people make sense of life in the mountains. Featuring contributors whose identities across race, gender, and socioeconomic background make for a uniquely intersectional look at the area, this collection provides a nuanced understanding of Appalachia and what it means to represent it. Themes of erasure, environmentalism, violence, kinship, racism, Indigeneity, queer love, and trans liberation course through the volume and exemplify the writers' resilience in reconciling their complex and often contradictory connections to home._x000D_
A collective exploration of rejection and acceptance, To Belong Here calls for a more inclusive future in Appalachia—one where everyone can thrive.

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer living on S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Šaawanwaki (Shawnee) lands in southeastern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the founder of the multimedia oral history project and podcast Country Queers, and the author of Country Queers: A Love Letter.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9859-0182-X / 198590182X
ISBN-13	978-1-9859-0182-7 / 9781985901827
Zustand	Neuware