rewriting queerness and rural culture

October 23, 2020 1:35 PM

"The spring before I left for a summer job in Colorado and then college in Montana, Dad and I went turkey hunting. He proudly photographed me in PapPap’s old cotton camo fatigues buttoned to the collar and my bad small-town pixie cut, holding a 12-gauge shotgun and a turkey decoy. Today when I look at that turkey-hunting photo, I see someone who was trying to reconcile two seemingly disparate cultures; I’m proud, now, to recognize a kid who was already one very queer redneck." Sarah Keller on Hunting for themself in the high Montana sagebrush, celebrating a new vision of queerness and rural culture.
posted by ChuraChura (1 comment total)

Thanks for posting. A well written peace, quite heartwarming in parts.
posted by armoir from antproof case at 3:28 PM on October 23, 2020 [1 favorite]