Appalachia has long been flattened into a white, Christian, and conservative place. While many Appalachians embrace those labels, they fail to acknowledge the presence of communities of color and of queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people across the region. Religious fundamentalism, white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia continue to oppress queer and gender-expansive Appalachians, especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. These realities have adversely affected queer and trans folks' ability to claim their rightful places within the region.
To Belong Here delves into how queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian people make sense of life in the mountains. Featuring contributors whose identities across race, gender, and socioeconomic background make for a uniquely intersectional look at the area, this collection provides a nuanced understanding of Appalachia and what it means to represent it. Themes of erasure, environmentalism, violence, kinship, racism, Indigeneity, queer love, and trans liberation course through the volume and exemplify the writers' resilience in reconciling their complex and often contradictory connections to home.
A collective exploration of rejection and acceptance, To Belong Here calls for a more inclusive future in Appalachia—one where everyone can thrive.
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To Belong Here
A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
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Publisher
The University Press of KentuckyYear
2025Print ISBN
9781985901834
9781985901827
eBook ISBN
9781985901841
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Sanctuary
- What You Should Know Before You Kill Me
- They Say All Kinds Are Welcome Here
- Where Are You From?
- School Eraser
- Volver, Volver
- Growing Up Black in Appalachia
- To Repel Ghosts
- Copperhead
- Proximity
- Circles/Dances
- Dear West Virginia
- What Anchors You Here
- Kentucky Waltz
- A Queer Place Called Home
- An Inheritance
- 4 lil poems on 4 big feelins
- Prayers to a Greater Belonging
- this world loves me too
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Appalachian Futures
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