Another Appalachia

Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

De: Neema Avashia

Narrado por: Jeed Saddy

Duración: 5 h y 47 m

Resumen del Editor

When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.

Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging listeners to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions.

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The tale of two West Virginia’s separated by decades of hardship and how the true spirit of Appalachia still remains.

The story of being a youth in the small Appalachian state of West Virginia in the 1970’s-80’s before the tragic rapid decline in all aspects of life and populations that followed over the next three decades. Shows that special and kind nature that comes with being Appalachian that thanks to political manipulations has sent those who have remained down paths against their own interest and personal values.