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Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on S'atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Shawandasse Tula (Shawnee) homelands. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. Their writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Cultures, Scalawag Magazine, Appalachian Review, and beyond. When not working with stories, Rae spends a lot of time failing at keeping goats in fences, swimming in the river, and two-stepping around their trailer.
“‘We are everywhere.’ You’ve heard it said, and with Country Queers Rae Garringer makes it plain. This book is such a gift to rural queer folks. It renders us visible. Renders our past and present experiences, questions, and struggles to navigate complicated feelings about people and place visible. More broadly, Country Queers reminds us all that even in the smallest places, in the ‘reddest’ states, there have always been queer people fighting for our collective liberation. They demand our solidarity. They, and this book, demand our close attention because they have so much to teach us.” —Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place “For over eleven years, writer and oral historian Rae Garringer has been thoughtfully listening to and documenting the experiences of queer people living in rural America, and now they have gathered these remarkable stories to share with readers. What a gift! Country Queers is a tender, fierce, and inspiring love letter to a population that is too often made invisible. Garringer serves as a generous and attentive guide, shining a light on stories of queer joy, courage, and fierce resistance. An important and necessary book, and a beautiful triumph.” —Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star
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