Upcoming Events
Oral History in Practice: Storytelling with Country Queers
Virtual
Join us for a conversation between VOW editorial director Dao X. Tran and Rae Garringer about Country Queers, their multimedia community-based oral history project documenting rural and small-town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences. Country Queers, founded by Rae in 2013, was created out of frustration with the lack of easily accessible rural queer stories. The project seeks to preserve rural LGBTQIA2S+ histories and push back against the narrative that queer people can only thrive in metropolitan spaces, as well as foster connections across geographical distance to withstand isolation and to build rural queer community. Since the project began, it has grown to include a collection of over 90 oral history interviews, a traveling gallery exhibit featuring images and oral histories, and a podcast.