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OverviewPart 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 Lettera 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rae GarringerPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9798888902486Pages: 208 Publication Date: 08 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsEditorial 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 AcknowledgementsReviews“‘We are everywhere.’ You’ve heard it said, and with Country Queers Rae Garringer makes it plain. This book is such a gift to rural queer folks. It renders us visible. Renders our past and present experiences, questions, and struggles to navigate complicated feelings about people and place visible. More broadly, Country Queers reminds us all that even in the smallest places, in the ‘reddest’ states, there have always been queer people fighting for our collective liberation. They demand our solidarity. They, and this book, demand our close attention because they have so much to teach us.” —Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place “For over eleven years, writer and oral historian Rae Garringer has been thoughtfully listening to and documenting the experiences of queer people living in rural America, and now they have gathered these remarkable stories to share with readers. What a gift! Country Queers is a tender, fierce, and inspiring love letter to a population that is too often made invisible. Garringer serves as a generous and attentive guide, shining a light on stories of queer joy, courage, and fierce resistance. An important and necessary book, and a beautiful triumph.” —Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star “‘We are everywhere.’ You’ve heard it said, and with Country Queers Rae Garringer makes it plain. This book is such a gift to rural queer folks. It renders us visible. Renders our past and present experiences, questions, and struggles to navigate complicated feelings about people and place visible. More broadly, Country Queers reminds us all that even in the smallest places, in the ‘reddest’ states, there have always been queer people fighting for our collective liberation. They demand our solidarity. They, and this book, demand our close attention because they have so much to teach us.” —Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place “For over eleven years, writer and oral historian Rae Garringer has been thoughtfully listening to and documenting the experiences of queer people living in rural America, and now they have gathered these remarkable stories to share with readers. What a gift! Country Queers is a tender, fierce, and inspiring love letter to a population that is too often made invisible. Garringer serves as a generous and attentive guide, shining a light on stories of queer joy, courage, and fierce resistance. An important and necessary book, and a beautiful triumph.” —Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star Author InformationRae 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) andaawanwaki (Shawnee) lands. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013.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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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