Storytelling in Queer Appalachia

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.

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?": Mêtis 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