TY - BOOK AU - Ryerson,Rachael AU - Gradin,Sherrie L. AU - Glasby,Hillery TI - Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other SN - 9781949199499 AV - HQ73 .S767 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Morgantown PB - West Virginia University Press KW - Sexual minorities KW - Appalachian Region KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Part I. The heart over the head: queer-affirming epistles and queerphobic challenges --; A letter to Appalachia; Amanda Hayes --; Challenging dominant Christianity's queerphobic rhetoric; Justin Ray Dutton --; Part II. Queer diaspora: existence and erasure in Appalachia --; A drowning in the foothills; Adam Denney --; A pedagogy of the flesh: deconstructing the "quare" Appalachian archetype; Matthew Thomas-Reid --; Pickin' and grinnin': quare hillbillies, counter rhetorics, and the recovery of home; Kim Gunter --; Part III. Both/and: intersectional understandings of Appalachian queers --; The crik is crooked: Appalachia as movable queer space; Lydia McDermott --; "Are y'all homos?": MĂȘtis as method for queer Appalachia; Caleb Pendygraft and Travis A. Rountree --; Queering trauma and resilience, Appalachian style!; delfin bautista --; Part IV. Queer media: radical acts of embodiment and resistance --; Working against the past: queering the Appalachian narrative; Tijah Bumgarner --; Writing the self: trans zine making in Appalachia; Savi Ettinger, Katie Manthey, Sonny Romano, and Cynthia Suryawan --; Queer Appalachia: a homespun praxis of rural resistance in Appalachian media; Gina Mamone and Sarah E. Meng; 2; b N2 - "In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, hollers, mountains, and campuses blend personal stories with scholarly and creative examinations of living and surviving as queers in Appalachia. The essayists collected in Storytelling in Queer Appalachia are academics, social workers, riot grrrl activists, teachers, students, practitioners, scholars of divinity, and boundary crossers, all imagining how to make legible the unspeakable other of Appalachian queerness"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2457503&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -