Appalachia Is Queer, Too (CW: some nudity)
I heard someone who was a professional Christian for a living explain why they were not a part of the community that their ministry served.
Tag: queer issues
Pauli Murray and the Pronominal Problem: a De-essentialist Trans Historiography
Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.
The Queer Moan of Clara Smith: On Queer Aphasia in Blues Studies
Smith is representative of many overlooked and erased queer figures. These narratives are not just forcibly erased, but the connective association between historical event and queerness is also severed.
Queer Heresies: Witchcraft and Magic as Sites of Queer Radicality
This project is in many ways about illuminating hitherto unexplored dimensions of history and how to use it to shape our present and our futures. It is an intervention into the contemporary art world as a queer artist, an art historian of the African-diaspora, and a practicing occultist implementing the performative rituals and myths of witchcraft.
A Queer Civil War Soldier’s Story
As a man who found intimacy with another soldier, in a relationship that outlasted the war, Alphons Richter’s story is queer to modern readers. Untangling the strangeness of the emotional, Richter provides insight into the queer history of the United States.
Weird Academica: Life in Academia as a Non-Binary Appalachian
I have found that academia can offer a lower-class West Virginian from a single-mother family the chance to live an illusion. I have been able to travel countries, gain audiences of affluent scholars, and been given a platform for my voice that I would not have received outside of academia.
The Activist History Review 