Country Queers Documents the Myriad Experiences of Rural LGBTQIA Americans
“Community is a very complicated and roomy word. Rural queer people also have other layers of identity that inform their realities.”
Dispatches from the Country Culture War
This Queer Ink Maker Is Using Alchemy to Turn Pain and Chaos Into Art
“Ink revolutionized our way of speaking, the ideas of the dead are recorded in ink, the dead speak through ink, it just had this really mystical element to it.”
Meet The Queer Activist Teaching Sex Ed to LGBTQ Appalachian Youth
“Bad sex education for queer kids it’s so violent and erasing and makes kids in rural places feel even more isolated.”
Raechel Anne Jolie on Class, Gender and Being a Rust Belt Femme
“I’ve come to embrace that ‘lack of decorum’ that I grew up in.”
TruckSlutsMag Is Making Trucks Gay and Reclaiming Rural Queer Culture
“There are gay rednecks, there have always been gay rednecks, and there always will be too.”
Wmn Zine: What It Means To Be A “Rural Lesbian”
Wmn Zine, the love letter to lesbians created by Jeanette Spicer, Florencia Alvarado, and Sarah Duell, is the exploring the radical nature of the word “lesbian.”
The Communist Pleasure Activism That’s Helping Erase Medical Debt in Appalachia
A queer company that makes a “fistin’ lube for lovers and others” is partnering with sexual advocacy and harm reduction groups while helping to erase tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt in West Virginia.
