Y'all means all : the emerging voices queering Appalachia by Z. Zane McNeill, McNeill, Z. Zane, editor instant download

Y'all means all : the emerging voices queering Appalachia by Z. Zane McNeill, McNeill, Z. Zane, editor instant download

x, 183 pages : 23 cm, \"Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! The seventeen writers in this collection eschew the contemporary trend of 'reactive' writing in the genre of Appalachian studies to provide examples of how modern Appalachians are defining themselves on their own terms with resiliency, ingenuity, and spirit. Multidisciplinary and multigenre, they incorporate critical race theory and queer theory to challenge the labels, stereotypes, and marginalization that queer folks in Appalachia have faced historically from within and outside the region.\" -- Back cover, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction / Z. Zane McNeil -- Finding self and discovering queer in Appalachia -- Trans Appalachian: An interdisciplinary exploration / Beck Banks -- Queer in the holler: Appalachian image-making / Julie Rae Powers -- Different creatures / E.K. Hoffman -- For black Appalachians, southerners, and rural folks / M.AMA -- All them that don't call me they / Sair Goetz -- How I got my name -- Tennessee Jones -- Queer hills, hollers, and mountain people -- Your own country: Finding queer history in Johnson city, Tennessee / Samantha Allen -- Home grown: Critical queer activism in Appalachia and the south / Heather Brydie Harris -- Rainbow aging: Negotiating queer identities among aging central Appalachians / M. Aaron Guest -- An Appalachian crip/queer environmental engagement / Rebecca-Eli Long -- Performing the queer corpo-rural in plant time / Kendall Loyer -- Tree sit blockades and queer liberation / Chessie Oak -- Creating the queer-Appalachian archive -- Myths and electricity: The queer Appalachia project and unconventional queer archives / Maxwell Cloe -- Lessons for the long term: One story of the queer Appalachia platform / Rachel Casiano Hernandez -- The \"Wyrd\" and wonderful queerness of Appalachian oral history in theory and practice / Matthew R. Sparks -- The man,