Queer Appalachian Reading List
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Non-Fiction and Art Books
- Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Ohio University Press (2015)
- Allison Bechdel, Fun Home, Houghton Mifflin (2006)
- Colin Johnson, Just Queer Folks, Temple University Press (2013)
- C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides, University of Minnesota Press (2017)
- Elizabeth Catte, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Belt Publishing (2018)
- E. Patrick Johnson, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, University of North Carolina Press (2011)
- E. Patrick Johnson, Black. Queer. Southern. Women, University of North Carolina Press (2018)
- Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson, Storytelling in Queer Appalachia, WVU Press (2020)
- Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place, NYU Press (2005)
- John Howard, Men Like That, University of Chicago Press (1999)
- Julie Rae Powers, Deep Ruts, Platanus Editions (2024)
- Laura Wright and Jessica Cory, Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place, University of Georgia Press (2023)
- Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country, NYU Press (2009)
- Mary Gray, Colin Johnson, and Brian Gilley, Queering the Countryside, NYU Press (2016)
- Neema Avashia, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, WVU Press (2022)
- Stacy Jane Grover, Tar Hollow Trans, University Press of Kentucky (2023)
- Steven Stoll, Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, Hill and Wang (2017)
- William Turner and Edward Cabell, Blacks in Appalachia, University Press of Kentucky (1985)
- Z. Zane McNeill, Deviant Hollers, University Press of Kentucky (2024)
- Z. Zane McNeill, Y'all Means All, PM Press (2021)
- Ann Pancake, Strange as this Weather Has Been, Counterpoint Press (2007)
- bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy, University Press of Kentucky (2012)
- Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star, Hub City Press (2020)
- Crystal Wilkinson, Perfect Black, University Press of Kentucky (2021)
- Charles Williams, Cosmic Giggles, Institute 193 (2020)
- Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, WVU Press (2019)
- Jonathan Williams, An Ear in Bartram's Tree, University of North Carolina Press (1969)
- Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes, Walks to the Paradise Garden, Institute 193 (2019)
- Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom, Fulcrum (1993)
- Nikky Finney, Heartwood, University Press of Kentucky (1997)
- Queer Appalachia, Electric Dirt, Queer Appalachia Press (2017)
- Randall Kenan, A Visitation of Spirits, Grove Press (1989)
- Silas House, Southernmost, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2018)
- Emma Copley Eisenberg, "The Tale of Queer Appalachia", The Washington Post (2020)
- Leah Hampton, "Lost in a (Mis)Gendered Appalachia," Guernica (2020)
- Jacob Kopcienski, Sounding Queer Appalachia, Ohio State University (2023)
- Joyce Barry, "Misfits in the Mountains: Tensions Between Environmental and LGBTQIA Identities in Appalachia," Environmental Histories (2019)
- Mathias Detamore, Queer Appalachia: Toward Geographies of Possibility, University of Kentucky (2010)
- Maxwell Cloe, Wildcrafting Our Queerness: LGBTQ+ Art, Archiving, and Activism in Contemporary Appalachia, College of William and Mary (2020)
- Rae Garringer, The Republic of Fabulachia: Queer Visions for a Post-Coal Appalachian Future, University of North Carolina (2017)
- Thomas Frank and Carissa Pfeiffer, Queer Life at Black Mountain College, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies (2023)
- Various, Speculative Fabulations: Queering Appalachian Futurisms, Journal of Appalachian Studies (2022)
- Zane McNeill and Melanie Metz, "Queer joy comes alive at this summer camp haven," National Geographic (2022)
- Country Queers
- Indigenous Appalachia
- Love Art Lab
- OUTSOUTH LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
- Queer Appalachia Oral History Project
- Souls Grown Deep Foundation
- Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project
- Appalshop
- The Big Artist Opportunities List
- Black in Appalachia
- Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center
- Blue Ridge Pride
- Campaign for Southern Equality
- DIFFERENT WRLD
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
- Engaging Collections
- Faulkner-Morgan Archive
- Foxfire Foundation
- Kentucky Folk Art Center
- Morgantown Pride
- Osage Nation
- Savannah River Band of Uchee Indians
- Shawnee Tribe
- Southern Equality Studios
- Southerners on New Ground
- Sprinkle-Stephens Collaboration
- University of Louisville Williams-Nichols Archive
- West Virginia Black Pride Foundation
- West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection