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Queerness

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Unsurprisingly, the art of LGBTQ+ Appalachians often reflects their experiences with existing outside the dominant norms of gender and sexuality. In some cases, the representation of queerness appears as the straightforward representation of queer people, symbols, and actions. An extension of this representational approach is the art-archive, in which the work of art documents or contains specific queer histories and/or people. Other times, these artists "queer" certain understandings of the body, gender, desire, nature, or the artistic process itself by using their art to blur lines between conventionally rigid categories and imagining new egalitarian futures. In every case, this art disrupts the narrative that Appalachia is a region void of any LGBTQ+ culture and that any queer person in the area is undoubtedly suffering.

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  1. Themes Maxwell Cloe

Contents of this path:

  1. 2020 Visions Series
  2. Bitches in Heat
  3. Body Study in Acrylic on Paper
  4. Corn Boy
  5. Ecosexuality
  6. Ecosex Wedding to the Appalachian Mountains
  7. Fighting for Recognition
  8. Fires of Pangea
  9. Friends
  10. Intricate Rituals
  11. Loose Study on the Body
  12. Non-Binary Code
  13. Out of Hiding
  14. Pangean Youth
  15. polari codes
  16. Portrait Study
  17. Pride Moth Pins
  18. The Running Dress
  19. Self Portrait
  20. Skin (or Glow)
  21. St. Sebastiane
  22. Static Wave
  23. The Conception of Ishmael; The Visage Fantastic of a Dirty Man, Clean
  24. The Jackal
  25. The Red Tulips
  26. Salt
  27. Swingin' Down the Valley
  28. Tuxedo T-Shirt Corset Binder
  29. What Will You Promise Me
  30. what you missed
  31. Wild Ramp and Morel Mushrooms are Girlfriends