Erscheint: September 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Rural Queer Joy
Using Social Practice Art to Increase Rural LGBTQ+ Visibility
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Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34837806
EAN: 9781646428991
Erscheint: September 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 62.50
Beschreibung
Blending social science, fine arts, and the humanities, Rural Queer Joy. explores how the telling of rural LGBTQ stories affects young rural queer people today. The stories of well-known Wyoming LGBTQ people like Matthew Shepard, Sissy Goodwin, and Artemis Langford often center experiences of trauma and hardship, leaving little space for experiences of triumph or joy. Author Jennifer Tabler and photographer Bailey Russel provided rural LGBTQ community members with an opportunity to represent their own experiences through participation in a social practice art project, asking what about being LGBTQ brings them joy. They then took the participants' portraits and invited them to annotate these portraits with paint, markers, paper, or other media. This kind of social practice art provides an opportunity to engage in epistemic activism through the self-empowerment of marginalized voices and perspectives, while also centering visuals of rural queer people that counter existing stereotypes and add nuance to our understanding of rural LGBTQ people. The dynamic artwork and quotes from young rural LGBTQ people displayed in this book highlight how their identities are sources of joy and opportunity rather than constraint and hardship. Rural and/or LGBTQ people, researchers, and teachers in the fields of community-engaged arts, gender studies, sociology of sexualities, and public humanities will find inspiration in Rural Queer Joy. -inspiration to rethink what it means to be rural and LGBTQ as well as to use social practice art to increase the visibility of other underserved communities.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jennifer Tabler
- Bailey Russel
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 160