Rae Garringer, author of Country Queers: A Love Letter, will be visiting WVU and Morgantown on October 25. Join us from 3:30-4:30 pm at Chitwood Hall, Room 101 for a Q&A with Rae about oral history methods.

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Additional Events

• 1:00-2:00pm at the Maple House (WVU LGBTQ+ Center), Meet & Greet with Rae Garringer. Maple House is located at 724 College Ave.
• 7:00pm at Monkey Wrench Books, 214 High Street, Conversation with the Rae Garringer and Book Signing.

About the Book and the Author

Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and they are the founder of Country Queers – an ongoing, multimedia, community-based oral history project and podcast documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. That project now forms the basis of Garringer's new book, Country Queers.

Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, Country Queers paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.

“‘We are everywhere.’ You’ve heard it said, and with Country Queers Rae Garringer makes it plain. This book is such a gift to rural queer folks. It renders us visible. Renders our past and present experiences, questions, and struggles to navigate complicated feelings about people and place visible. More broadly, Country Queers reminds us all that even in the smallest places, in the ‘reddest’ states, there have always been queer people fighting for our collective liberation. They demand our solidarity. They, and this book, demand our close attention because they have so much to teach us.”

—Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

“With the art of a storyteller Rae Garringer expands our understanding of queer lives and shows that our home places are everywhere we want them to be.”

—Barbara Smith, author of The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

*For more information or questions about accommodations, please email jcw00013@mail.wvu.edu