Hillery Glasby is an assistant professor in the writing, rhetoric, and American cultures department and a faculty fellow for the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University. Sherrie Gradin is a professor of English at Ohio University. Rachael Ryerson is the director of composition and a lecturer at Ohio University.
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Introduction Part I: The Heart Over the Head: Queer-affirming Epistles and Queer-phobic Challenges A Letter to Appalachia Challenging Dominant Christianity's Queerphobic Rhetoric Part II: Queer Diaspora: Existence and Erasure in Appalachia A Drowning in the Foothills A Pedagogy of the Flesh: Deconstructing the "Quare" Appalachian Archetype Pickin' and Grinnin': Quare Hillbillies, Counter Rhetorics, and the Recovery of Home Part III: Both/And: Intersectional Understandings of Appalachian Queers The Crik Is Crooked: Appalachia as Moveable Queer Space "Are Y'all Homo?": Me?tis as Method for Queer Appalachia Queering Trauma and Resilience, Appalachian Style! Part IV: Queer Media: Radical Acts of Embodiment and Resistance Working against the Past: Queering the Appalachian Narrative Writing the Self: Trans Zine Making in Appalachia Queer Appalachia: A Homespun Praxis of Restorative Justice and Rural Resistance in Appala-chian Media List of Contributors Index
"Storytelling in Queer Appalachia offers us a beautifully disruptive way to rethink our understandings of a singular Appalachia--as a place, as a people, as an ideology. These insightful chapters approach queerness-in-place through a host of engaging lenses and frameworks." --William P. Banks, coeditor of Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature