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Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia is a 256-page collection uplifting the voices of an extremely varied and diverse community who define Appalachia and non–metronormative queerness for themselves. Edited by Z. Zane McNeill, this forthcoming book is born out of optimism situated within an Appalachian history of resistance and queerness fueled by radical community making, mutual aid, and solidarity in movements for intersecting justices.
Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of “we’re queer and we’re here to stay, cause we’re every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees” echoing through the hills of Appalachia and into the boardrooms of every media outlet and opportunistic author seeking to define Appalachia from the outside for their own political agendas. Multidisciplinary and multi-genre, Y’all necessarily incorporates elements of critical theory, such as critical race theory and queer theory, while dealing with a multitude of methodologies, from quantitative analysis, to oral history and autoethnography.
This collection eschews the contemporary trend of “reactive” or “responsive” writing in the genre of Appalachian studies, and alternatively, provides examples of how modern Appalachians are defining themselves on their own terms. As such, it also serves as a toolkit for other Appalachian readers to follow suit, and similarly challenge the labels, stereotypes and definitions often thrust upon them. While providing blunt commentary on the region’s past and present, the book’s soul is sustained by the resilience, ingenuity, and spirit exhibited by the authors; values which have historically characterized the Appalachian region and are continuing to define its culture to the present.
This book demonstrates above all else that Appalachia and its people are filled with a vitality and passion for their region which will slowly but surely effect long-lasting and positive changes in the region. If historically Appalachia has been treated as a “mirror” of the country, this book breaks that trend by allowing modern Appalachians to examine their own reflections and to share their insights in an honest, unfiltered manner with the world.
Contributors include Beck Banks, Julie Rae Powers, e.k. hoffman, M. ama, sair goetz, Tennessee Jones, Samantha Allen, Heather Brydie Harris, Marc Aaron Guest, Rebecca Eli Long, Kendall Loyer, Chessie Oak, Maxwell Cloe, Rachel Casiano Hernandez, Matthew R. Sparks, Brenton Watts, and Hannah Conway.
As of October 20th, this project has raised $10,500 of their $8,000 goal. This project has 9 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get one e-Book. For a pledge of $20, you will get one book. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/yall-means-all-the-emerging-voices-queering-appalachia?ref=section-homepage-view-more-discovery-p1
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