The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project

Queerness

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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