Episodes
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Country Queers: A Love Letter arrives October 8, 2024 from Haymarket Books!
Listen to Rae multitask morning goat chores while telling you about the book and the fundraiser we've launched to support the costs of book tour travels. Featuring: ducks, goat bells, goats chewing, Rae walking through tall grass, and rambling without a script in the milking shed!
You can preorder the book here and please help us bring the book tour to rural areas and small towns all over by supporting our Fundraiser!
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In 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 organizers held a rally at the Capitol Building in Charleston, WV in protest of House Bill 2007 which would enforce a total ban on gender affirming care for minors in the state. Over 100 people packed the upper level of the capitol building to protest outside the Senate Chambers where the bill was being discussed. In this episode you'll hear interviews with organizers and attendees of the rally, and audio from a powerful afternoon of queer and trans rage, grief, joy, and laughter in the heart of a state often ignored by the national left.
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This episode talks about suicide. Please take care of yourself while listening, and if you or someone you know is struggling please call The Trans Lifeline at (877) 565-8860. Or call or text the Suicice & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
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In this episode we are asking you to support Project Rainbow an organization working to create West Virginia’s first LGBTQ+ safe haven and shelter in Morgantown, WV.
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Created and produced by Rae Garringer with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland. Music by Tommy Anderson.
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led and Appalachian based project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Dorothy 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 Garringer in August 2018, Dorothy talks about memories of growing up "a poor kid in love with language," learning to write, how she got from FL to CA, class, feminism, and the magic of writing.
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For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support Lauren Garretson-Atkinson's gofundme. Lauren is an Affrilachian creative hailing from the mountains of West Virginia. She received her BA in Africana Studies & Creative Writing from Hampshire College, and her MFA in Fiction from Virginia Tech. Non-traditional in most ways, Lauren enjoys pushing boundaries and genres in her writing, working with speculative-fiction, magical realism and historical fiction. She is raising money to support her in finding the time and space to finish the afrofuturist Appalachian novel she’s been working on for years. You can support Lauren here: https://gofund.me/23c5fa12
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Rae Garringer with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland. Music by Tommy Anderson.
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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KD 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 audio diaries recorded on KD’s commutes to and from the farm, and an interview with their mother: Reverend Sandras Anderson. They reflect on the legacy of Black farmers, returning home and falling back in love with rural MS, divine androgyny, spirituality, abundance, and more.
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For this episode, we’re asking you to please donate to KD as they continue the beginning investments and building of their farming journey. You can do so via cash app: $kellsrandle or Venmo: kells_randle
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by KD Randle with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Tokui. Audio editing by Rae Garringer.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Our featured song on this episode is “Black Myself” by Amythyst Kiah!!! Additional music is by Podington Bear and Tommy Anderson.
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Dana 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 their two kids. In this episode Zach Henningsen interviews Dana about living in Vermont as a NYC kid, music, finding a sense of home in ourselves, and the creativity of rural queer people.
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Zach Henningsen (he/him) is a Junior in highschool with a passion for social justice and equity work. He served on a school board that oversaw- and ultimately suggested the removal of- the School Resource Officer position. He also volunteers at Planned Parenthood, and spends most of his time free either studying or playing music. Zach moved to Vermont in December of 2016 from Texas- and has lived in at least five different states over the span of his life. He believes that place and environment can shape identity to a great extent, and the shift from Texas to Vermont- while jarring- was a positive one. A supportive community fosters growth and comfort, and he believes that wherever you are, such community can be found. He is the producer and creator of this week’s episode featuring Dana Kaplan.
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For this episode, Dana is asking you to support The Root Social Justice Center. The Root is a Vermont-based,POC-led nonprofit organization focused on racial justice organizing, community advocacy, and relationship-building through their programming, actions, and local initiatives. The Root provides a physically and financially accessible space in Southern Vermont for social justice groups to meet AND is a hub for racial justice organizing.
You can learn more and donate on their website: https://www.therootsjc.org
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Zach Henningsen with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Tokui. Audio editing by Rae Garringer.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Our featured song on this episode is “Simple Times” by Dana’s band The Smittens! Additional music is by One Man Book and Podington Bear.
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Miguel 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 generations. In this episode Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay (she/they) interviews Miguel about his work to restore the adobe home that's been in his family for generations, lessons his grandparents taught him, and his relationship to his father, his ancestry, and the land.
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Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay (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. She is the interivewer and creator of this week’s episode featuring Miguel Mendías, and you can find his interview of her in Episode 2.
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For this episode, Miguel is asking you to support Ekvn-Yefolecv: an intentional ecovillage community of Indigenous Maskoke persons who, after 180 years of having been forcibly removed from traditional homelands - in what is commonly/colonially known as Alabama - have returned for the purpose of practicing linguistic, cultural and ecological sustainability. You can donate and learn more on their website: https://www.ekvn-yefolecv.org/how-can-i-help
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay, with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Tokui. Audio editing by: Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay and Rae Garringer.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Our Featured Song on this episode is “Surftastic” by Slutpilll. Slutpill is a Whitesburg, Kentucky based band made up of Carrie Carter, Paulina Vasquez, and Mitchella Phipps. Additional music in this episode is by Tommy Anderson!
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Sharonna 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 Toviah DeGroot draws from Bhanu Kapil's "The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers" for a dream-like conversation about bodies, fatness, disability, race, ancestral memory, parenting, white violence, silence, and more.
Toviah Degroot (they/them) grew up living on occupied Abenaki land in central Vermont. They are now a college student, writer, artist, advocate, and a pain in the ass. Building community and bringing people together are their favorite things in the world, and they intend to do it for the rest of their life.
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For this episode, Sharonna is asking you to PAY BLACK FEMMES, QUIETLY.
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Toviah DeGroot, with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Higashibaba. Audio editor: Rae Garringer
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Featured song is "Headspace" by Nayeema. Nayeema is a young musician from Knoxville, TN - checkout their music here! Additional music by Ketsa and Tommy Anderson!
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Sam 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 finding a sense of belonging within the word "Fabulachian." Then you'll hear a phone call between Sam and Rae from January 2022 reflecting on what it's like to listen back to this interview after nearly a decade.
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There's a lot of wind in this episode so take care of your ears while listening!
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For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support Black Appalachian Young and Rising - which is the Black Youth caucus of the STAY Project. BAYR is for Black Appalachian Youth and by Black Appalachian Youth. Check out their work and donate here:
https://www.thestayproject.net/black-appalachian-young-and-rising
Also BIG love to the STAY Project and the Highlander Center in this episode! Please go check out all of their important and powerful work in Appalachia and the South!
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Rae Garringer with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open.
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Music by Sam Gleaves! Check out more of his music here: http://www.samgleaves.com
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Adria 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 piston rings on her dirtbike, and operating heavy equipment like hydraulic excavators. In this episode Tommy Anderson interviews Adria about growing up in Athens, coming out as trans in the 90s, and punk and goth music!
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For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support The Okra Project. The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever they can reach them. Find the link to donate on their website: https://www.theokraproject.com
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Tommy Anderson, with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Higashibaba. Audio editors: Tommy Anderson and Rae Garringer
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Music by Adria's band Tears for the Dying and Tommy Anderson!
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If you'd like to support this rural queer and trans led project head on over to our Patreon page.
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Kūʻiʻolani (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, language, color theory, queerness, colonization, belonging, being of mixed Indigenous ancestry, and living in highly-gentrified, highly trafficked tourist destinations.
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For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support a gofundme that Kūʻiʻolani and their friend Kahele have launched to create a māhū* (nonbinary, trans) led project in Hawaiʻi. They write: "Primarily, this project aims to house QTBIPOC community and repair relationship to land, especially for Kanaka Maoli, Indigenous, and Black relatives. Secondary to this objective, is a focus on creative endeavors, both traditional and contemporary. In general, it is the continuation of ancestral practices alongside new media, arts, and music."
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To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org
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Created and produced by Miguel Mendías, with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers.
Sound Design by Hideo Higashibaba. Audio editor: Rae Garringer
Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Music by Tommy Anderson and Podington Bear.
Ambient recordings by Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay.
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In 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, Kūʻiʻolani Cotchay, Miguel Mendías, Tommy Anderson. Tovi DeGroot, and Zach Henningsen. Our sound designer is Hideo Higashibaba, and our brilliant editorial advisory dream team is Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland!
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If you liked what you heard, please rate and review the podcast wherever you listen. If you'd like to support our work, please consider becoming a sustaining supporter over on Patreon.
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Host/Editor/Sound Designer/Co-Producer: Rae Garringer. Co-producer HB Lozito. Music in order of appearance: written by Sam Gleaves & performed on pedal steel by Rebecca Branson Jones, additional music on acoustic and electric guitar written and performed by Tommy Anderson. Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Sharon P. Holland, and Lewis Raven Wallace, special thanks to Hermelinda for feedback on this episode!
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We'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 for us. You'll hear participants - many brand new to audio work - in conversation with each other about identities, land, colonization, ancestral memory, race, class, belonging, and what "country" even means.
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In 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 uncle who managed a huge herd of sheep in rural New Zealand. Tash and Elena are musicians, partners, and co-founders of an organization called Indigenous Ways.
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This is the third and final episode in our Ode to Sheep series dedicated to sheep and the queer and trans humans who love them! Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com and sign up to become a sustaining supporter of Country Queers on Patreon.
You can find a photo of Tash and Elena on our social media pages.
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In this episode, we're asking folks who have additional funds, to please donate to the organization Tash and Elena founded: Indigenous Ways. Their mission is to "reach Indigenous and LGBTQIA2+ communities through outreach with music, the arts, and indigenous wisdom that creates and enhances survival and sustainability.” Your support will enable them to continue making relief runs to the Black Mountain community - delivering supplies such as water, PPE, clothing, and cleaning supplies as the covid19 pandemic continues. You can learn more about their work and donate at: https://www.indigenousways.org/donate
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Host & Producer: Rae Garringer
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Music in this episode: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar by Tommy Anderson, and composed by Sam Gleaves and performed on pedal steel by Rebecca Branson Jones.
Special thanks to Dan and his sheep in southern WV for ambient farm sounds heard throughout this episode.
Also....SEASON TWO IS COMING SOOOOOOOON!!! Subscribe now!
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In 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 rural spaces. And you'll meet Penelope Logue - a white, queer and trans rancher - who talks about raising alpaca on a queer and trans haven and active ranch, her relationship with her kiddo who's also trans, and more!
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This is part two of three episodes dedicated to sheep and the queer and trans humans who love them! Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com and sign up to become a sustaining supporter of Country Queers on Patreon to help us produce our 2nd Season (coming Fall 2021!)
Find the folks you heard in this episode on our instagram page and at their websites: Pony Jacobson at www.sugarfieldfarm.com and Penelope Logue at www.tenaciousunicornranch.com
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In this episode, we're asking folks who have additional funds, to please donate in support of Medicine Bowl - a land-based strategy for liberation based in the mountains of North Carolina. “Medicine Bowl’s mission is to transition back into right relationship with the universe, the planet, and one another. We believe that land-based strategies offer the most wholistic pathways towards the liberation of BIPOC folks in our lifetime." Earlier this year they were able to secure 142 acres of land in western NC. Additional donations will support expanding housing, farming infrastructure, sacred spaces for spiritual work, and so much more. “ You can donate on Venmo @kifu-faruq or on their website at medicinebowl.org.
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Host & Producer: Rae Garringer
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Music in this episode: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar by Tommy Anderson
Special thanks to Dan and his sheep in southern WV for ambient farm sounds heard throughout this episode. And to Kenny Bilbrey for editorial feedback!
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In 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 flock of Icelandic sheep in western Washington, and finally we'll meet Wesley Godden who grew up in Singapore and now shepherds a flock of Katahdin hair sheep with his partner of 20 years in Ontario Canada.
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This is part one of two episodes dedicated to sheep and the queer and trans humans who love them! Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com and sign up to become a sustaining supporter of Country Queers on Patreon to help us produce our 2nd Season (coming Fall 2021!)
Find the farmers you heard in this episode on instagram and at their websites: Maja and her sister farm in Iowa at Local Harvest CSA, Grayson farms in Washington at Pink Moon Farm, and Wesley Godden farms with his partner in Ontario at Fairside Farm.
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This week, in light of the horrific white supremacist attacks on the Asian American community in Atlanta, we’re asking folks to donate to Asian Americans Advancing Justice - a nonprofit based in Atlanta that released "A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities" after the shootings on March 16th that left 8 people killed in the Atlanta area, including 6 Asian women. We're encouraging listeners to sign on to their collective statement decrying systemic violence against Asian American communities, and to donate in support of the victims and their families here.
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Host & Producer: Rae Garringer
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Theme Song: Composed and performed on banjo by Sam Gleaves, pedal steel versions by Rebecca Branson Jones
Additional music: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar by Tommie Anderson
Special thanks to Dan and his sheep in Jacox, WV for ambient farm sounds heard throughout this episode.
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This 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. We talk about how we came into story-telling and narrative-shifting work, who we are accountable to in this work, and how we think about and engage with the power dynamics at play in this work.
Season 2 will be dropping later in 2021, so in the meantime we'll be bringing you some bonus episodes throughout the winter and into the spring. If this episode is too in the weeds for you, about behind-the-scenes details of how our team thinks about this work, rest assured: more rural queer and trans stories are coming your way soon, including an episode about queer and trans SHEPHERDS!!! Stay warm and queer out there friends!
P.S. Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com. And, become a sustaining supporter of Country Queers on Patreon to help us pay more folks for the production of our 2nd Season!
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Robyn 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 how Prince Edward County closed their public schools for 5 years after Brown vs. Board out of a refusal to integrate. A move that forced her mother, and countless other Black students, to seek schooling out of state.
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This is the last episode in Season 1! Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com. And, become a sustaining supporter of Country Queers on Patreon to help us produce a 2nd Season!
Follow Robyn's farmstead progress on instagram at @flossies_farmstead
And, if you have additional funds, we're asking folks to please donate to Maroon Grove Freedom Farm, which is located in so called Waverly, VA / Nottoway territory, on Black liberated land that was bought with reparations. The farm will provide plant medicine and food as medicine to queer and trans BIPOC communities. The farm is collecting ongoing reparations and donations to make repairs and updates to create a thriving community for QTBIPOC.
* Venmo: @jas-battle * CashApp: $jasbattle * PayPal: paypal.me/jasbattle. *
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Host, Producer, and Lead Editor: Rae Garringer
Assistant Editor & Musical Magic: Tommie Anderson
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Theme Song: Composed and performed on banjo by Sam Gleaves, pedal steel versions by Rebecca Branson Jones
Additional music: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar by Tommie Anderson
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Silas 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 in the evangelical holiness church, how meeting his now-husband inspired him to come out at age 34, the lessons he learns from his children, how writing feels like prayer, and his faith.
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Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com
For this episode, we’re asking folks who have additional funds to donate to two fundraisers:
1. The first is for Black Soil: Our Better Nature – who’s mission is to reconnect Black Kentuckians to their heritage and legacy in agriculture. They represent over 60 Kentucky based Black farmers, culinary artists, artists & makers.
https://pages.donately.com/lexingtonlyric/campaign/black-soil-our-better-nature
2. The second is to support Jennie & Delaney’s goal for stable housing in rural Tennessee. Jennie is a Black, vegan, agender Aries mom of a 2-and-a-half year old agender Scorpio child. In Jennie’s words: “I’d like to build us a tiny home so that we’ll have stability, can move when we need to travel, eat, sleep & wash comfortably, and be active and present in community.”
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tiny-home-for-jennie-and-delaney?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link
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Host, Producer, and Lead Editor: Rae Garringer
Assistant Editor & Musical Magic: Tommie Anderson
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Theme Song: Composed and performed on banjo by Sam Gleaves, pedal steel versions by Rebecca Branson Jones
Additional music and sound effects: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar, and chimes, by Tommie Anderson
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The 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 first episode features interviews with trans organizers all over the U.S.
Check it out at : https://anchor.fm/transcripts-podcast And then subscribe, listen and support this important work!
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At 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 Regional Gay Rodeo on July 13, 2014, Kody talks about coming out as trans in his 50s, building community with people in his small town, and how he found the gay rodeo community.
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Learn more about this project at www.countryqueers.com
For this episode, we’re asking folks who have additional funds to donate to Frontline Farming - a Denver-based Womxn & POC-led grassroots nonprofit that focuses on building food sovereignty & farmer liberation. FLF works from an asset-based perspective to quote feed our communities with healthy, affordable produce grown from our 5 acres of land, educate our constituents, create equitable policies, and honor the land and our ancestors, end quote. In response to COVID-19, FLF started an initiative called Project Protect Food Systems that seeks to support immigrant food workers across the nation by raising funds to provide PPE, proposing and advocating for equitable policy action, raise awareness to Food Worker strengths and plights, and illuminate the nation to Food Workers contributions to our society.
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Host, Producer, and Lead Editor: Rae Garringer
Assistant Editor & Musical Magic: Tommie Anderson
Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland
Theme Song: Composed and performed on banjo by Sam Gleaves, pedal steel versions by Rebecca Branson Jones
Additional music: Composed and performed on acoustic and electric guitar by Tommie Anderson
Thank you to Abbie & Winnie the pigs in Efland, NC for our intro sound, recorded by Karen & Ella!
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