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A review by bashsbooks
Y'all Means All by Zane McNeill
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
I've been waiting to read Y'all Means All for months, and it did not disappoint!
As a queer Appalachian with a complicated relationship to the region and its culture, it was really refreshing and heartening to see myself reflected in a place that everyone see so antithetical to my existence. I also love when academics get to write about niche things that they're passionate about, which is what most of these essays boil down to.
I want my own copy of this, for reference and for sharing with others - firstly my cousin.
Favorite essay list: Queer in the Holler: Appalachian Image-Making by Julie Rae Powers, For Black Appalachians, Southerners, and Rural Folks by M.AMA, All Them that Don't Call Me They by sair goetz, Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South by Heather Brydie Harris, Tree Sit Blockades and Queer Liberation by Chessie Oaks, Myths and Electricity: The Queer Appalachia Project and Unconventional Queer Archives by Maxwell Cloe, The "Wyrd" and Wonderful Queerness of Appalachian Oral History in Theory and Practice by Matthew R. Sparks, and The Man, The Moth, The Legend: The Role and Function of Folklore in Queer-Appalachian Social Media Communities by Brent Watts.
As a queer Appalachian with a complicated relationship to the region and its culture, it was really refreshing and heartening to see myself reflected in a place that everyone see so antithetical to my existence. I also love when academics get to write about niche things that they're passionate about, which is what most of these essays boil down to.
I want my own copy of this, for reference and for sharing with others - firstly my cousin.
Favorite essay list: Queer in the Holler: Appalachian Image-Making by Julie Rae Powers, For Black Appalachians, Southerners, and Rural Folks by M.AMA, All Them that Don't Call Me They by sair goetz, Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South by Heather Brydie Harris, Tree Sit Blockades and Queer Liberation by Chessie Oaks, Myths and Electricity: The Queer Appalachia Project and Unconventional Queer Archives by Maxwell Cloe, The "Wyrd" and Wonderful Queerness of Appalachian Oral History in Theory and Practice by Matthew R. Sparks, and The Man, The Moth, The Legend: The Role and Function of Folklore in Queer-Appalachian Social Media Communities by Brent Watts.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Classism
Moderate: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Colonisation
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol
-Queerphobia generally