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Trans People Belong in West Virginia
Country Queers - March 14, 2023 13:44 - 42 minutesIn 2023 state legislatures across the South and Midwest have introduced over 400 bills attacking trans adults, trans kids, and drag queens. This legislative session in West Virginia saw the introduction of more than 15 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills. On Thursday March 9th, 2023 trans organizer...
Dorothy Allison
Country Queers - April 05, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutesDorothy Allison is a 73 year old, white, feminist, working class story teller, who was raised in South Carolina and Florida and now makes her home in California. She is the author of many books including novels, short stories, a poetry collection, and a memoir. In this interview, recorded by Rae...
KD Randle
Country Queers - March 22, 2022 12:39 - 47 minutesKD Randle (they/them) is a Black, southern, queer, genderfluid person currently living in Jackson, Mississippi. They’re a lifelong learner, visionary, creator, their mother’s youngest seed, a friend, partner, dog parent, and former farm apprentice at Sipp Culture. This episode weaves together au...
Dana Kaplan
Country Queers - March 08, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutesDana Kaplan (he/him) is a white trans person and the Executive Director of Outright Vermont and he’s on a mission to make Vermont celebratory and affirming for all LGBTQ+ youth. When not working, Dana spends time making music, fermenting food, people watching, and hanging out with his spouse and ...
Miguel Mendías
Country Queers - February 22, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutesMiguel Mendías is an interdisciplinary artist living in Marfa, Texas, occupied Jumano and Apache lands. He is Chicanx, Mexican-American, or Latinx (a term he dislikes). He is mestizo; of Czech, Basque, and Rarámuri (Tarahumara) descent. His father’s family has lived in Marfa, Texas for five g...
Sharonna Golden
Country Queers - February 08, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutesSharonna Henderson is a mother, an activist and a burlesque performer. She is a fat, Black, queer, woman who believes in liberation through rest and art. Her life is full of love and beauty and it’s her mission to share it with as many souls as possible during this lifetime. In this episode Tovi...
Sam Gleaves
Country Queers - January 25, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutesSam Gleaves is a white gay man who was born and raised in Virginia and now lives in Kentucky. Sam is an old-time musician, educator, singer/songwriter, and a banjo, guitar, and fiddle player. This episode features Rae's 2013 interview with Sam where he talks about musical traditions, family, and ...
Adria Stembridge
Country Queers - January 11, 2022 06:00 - 58 minutesAdria Stembridge (she/her) is a goth, neurodivergent, white, queer, trans woman who was born and raised in Georgia where she still lives. She has been in bands like: The Endless, The Girl Pool, Vomit Thrower, Tears for the Dying, and more. Adria loves watching anime, roller skating, changing pis...
Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay
Country Queers - December 28, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourKūʻiʻolani (she/they) is a queer, mixed-Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) living in their ancestral lands in Mākaha, Hawaiʻi. She is an educator, learning experience designer, musician/creative and plant person. In this episode Miguel Mendías interviews Kūʻiʻolani about Hawaiian history, lands, lan...
Introducing Season 2 with HB & Rae
Country Queers - December 14, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode HB Lozito of Out in the Open and Rae Garringer of Country Queers welcome you behind the scenes of our collaboratively produced, rural-lgbtqia+ made Season 2 adventure! Our fellow-travelers and co-producers in this Season, who you'll meet along the way, include: KD Randle, Kūʻiʻol...
Szn 2 is here!!!
Country Queers - November 30, 2021 14:00 - 3 minutesWe're back with another season full of rural queer oral histories, but with a twist! In Season 2 we teamed up with our friends at Out in the Open and invited 6 rural and small town lgbtqia+ folks to join us in an experimental adventure in creating a collaboratively produced season: by us and fo...
Ode to Sheep - Part Three
Country Queers - November 16, 2021 12:50 - 1 hourIn this episode you’ll meet Tash Terry who is Diné and shares memories of spending time with her grandmother on a sheep camp on Black Mountain in the Navajo Reservation. Then, you’ll meet Elena Higgins who is of Maori and Samoan descent, and shares memories of spending time with her cousin and ...
Ode to Sheep - Part Two
Country Queers - September 22, 2021 11:45 - 51 minutesIn this "sheep-adjacent" episode, we’re diving into the some of the ways in which we relate to and communicate with animals. You'll meet Pony Jacobson - a white, queer and trans sheep shearer - who shares stories of training his border collie herding dog and working and living in conservative ru...
Ode to Sheep - Part One
Country Queers - March 21, 2021 14:58 - 53 minutesIn this episode, we'll hear sounds of sheep and some queer and trans humans who love them. Host Rae Garringer shares memories of growing up on a sheep farm in West Virginia, Maja Black shares an audio diary of lambing season in Iowa, then we'll hear an interview with Grayson Crane who raises a ...
Meet The Editorial Dream Team!
Country Queers - December 28, 2020 15:03 - 52 minutesThis episode features audio from a webinar hosted by the Women's and Gender-Non-Conforming Center at Berea College in October 2020 as a part of their virtual pride series. In it, Rae Garringer is joined by the Editorial Dream Team: Sharon P. Holland, Hermelinda Cortés, and Lewis Raven Wallace. ...
Robyn Thirkill
Country Queers - August 25, 2020 13:38 - 41 minutesRobyn Thirkill farms on Monacan Territory in Prospect, VA where she raises goats, ducks, turkeys and pigs on land that's been in her family for 100 years. In this 2016 interview Robyn talks about her commitment to her family's heritage and history on the land, her adventures in beekeeping, and h...
Silas House
Country Queers - August 18, 2020 13:16 - 49 minutesSilas House is a nationally best-selling author of 6 novels, 3 plays, and a book of creative nonfiction. Silas grew up on Adena, Yuchi, Cherokee, and Shawnee land in Laurel County, Kentucky. In this interview - recorded in July 2018 at the Hindman Settlement School - Silas talks about growing up...
Podcast Crush: Transcripts!
Country Queers - August 17, 2020 17:36 - 5 minutesThe next episode is in the works, but in the meantime, we wanted to tell y'all about a new favorite podcast. It’s called Transcripts and it’s about how trans people are remaking the world, from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. The production team is entirely queer and trans and the ...
Kody Kay
Country Queers - August 11, 2020 14:03 - 35 minutesAt the time of our interview, Kody Kay was 52 years old and he lived on Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, & Sioux land in Longmont, CO where he ran a heating and cooling company. Kody is trans and he's an announcer on the International Gay Rodeo Circuit. In this interview, recorded at the Rocky Mountain R...
Elandria Williams
Country Queers - August 04, 2020 14:13 - 45 minutesElandria Williams identifies as a Black, southern/Appalachian, disabled, genderqueer, pansexual, Unitarian Universalist, “auntiemama” to 3 nieces and nephews and 4 god kids. E grew up on Cherokee land in Knoxville and Powell, TN. In this interview - recorded at the STAY Project's summer gatheri...
David Rodriguez
Country Queers - July 28, 2020 14:00 - 42 minutesDavid Rodriguez grew up on Karankawa land in Wharton, Texas in a family whose roots reach back to before TX was a state. David was 26 and living on Tonkawa and Sana land in Bastrop, TX at the time of our interview in June 2014. He shares stories of raising livestock for the FFA as a kid, his mo...
Tessa
Country Queers - July 21, 2020 13:07 - 37 minutesTessa grew up in Cookeville, Tennessee - which was built on Cherokee and Shawnee land. At the time of this interview, in November 2017, Tessa was 22 years old and studying chemical engineering at TN Tech. In this interview she talks about coming out to her parents, her work with Cumberland Gende...
Sharon P. Holland
Country Queers - July 14, 2020 14:51 - 48 minutesSharon P. Holland is a professor of critical race, queer, and feminist theory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives on Catawba, Eno, and Shakori land. In this interview, recorded in June 2017, Sharon talks about her childhood in D.C. and Durham, NC, her journey towards fi...
1. Crisosto Apache
Country Queers - July 07, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutesCrisosto Apache was born and raised on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. After coming out at age 17, they left home and spent years searching for a sense of belonging in gay scenes in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. In this episode, featuring an interview recorded in June 2014, Criso...
Crisosto Apache
Country Queers - July 07, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutesCrisosto Apache was born and raised on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. After coming out at age 17, they left home and spent years searching for a sense of belonging in gay scenes in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. In this episode, featuring an interview recorded in June 2014, Criso...
Episode 0 - Introducing Country Queers
Country Queers - June 30, 2020 15:06 - 10 minutesWhen Rae Garringer set out to gather rural and small town LGBTQIA+ histories in 2013, they had no formal training in oral history or audio recording. They were motivated by a deep frustration that it was so hard to find rural queer stories, and an intense personal need to connect with other rura...
Introducing Country Queers
Country Queers - June 30, 2020 15:06 - 10 minutesWhen Rae Garringer set out to gather rural and small town LGBTQIA+ histories in 2013, they had no formal training in oral history or audio recording. They were motivated by a deep frustration that it was so hard to find rural queer stories, and an intense personal need to connect with other rura...
0. Introducing Country Queers
Country Queers - June 30, 2020 15:06 - 10 minutesWhen Rae Garringer set out to gather rural and small town LGBTQIA+ histories in 2013, they had no formal training in oral history or audio recording. They were motivated by a deep frustration that it was so hard to find rural queer stories, and an intense personal need to connect with other rura...
Country Queers Trailer
Country Queers - June 22, 2020 20:50 - 1 minuteCountry Queers is a podcast featuring oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks in the U.S. Season One uplifts often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. Su...
Trailer
Country Queers - June 22, 2020 20:50 - 1 minuteCountry Queers is a podcast featuring oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks. Season One uplifts often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. Hosted and pr...
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