Essays

This Election, Spare Us the Hillbilly Elegy. Queer Appalachians are Fending for Ourselves. THEM Magazine. October 2024.

Why Journalists Must Speak Out About Gaza, co-written with Aja Arnold, Victoria Bouloubasis, Rebecca Chowdhury, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi, Tina Vásquez, Irene Vázquez, and Lewis Raven Wallace. Co-published by In These Times, Mainline, Mondoweiss, Prism, The Real News Network, Reckon, Scalawag, and Truthout. December 2023.

The Queens of Queen City. Virginia Quarterly Review. Spring/Summer Issue 2023.

The Media’s Extractive Telling of Appalachia. Scalawag Magazine. December 2020.

A Country Queers Dispatch. Scalawag Magazine. July 2019.

Learning from the Leadership of West Virginia’s Striking Teachers. Scalawag Magazine. March 2018.

“It’s Going to Take Resoluteness” Liz Sanders on Uprooting White Supremacy in Central Appalachia and Beyond. Scalawag Magazine. January 2018.

“Well We’re Fabulous, and We’re Appalachians, So We’re Fabulachians” Country Queers in Central Appalachia. Southern Cultures. Spring 2017.

A Love Letter to West Virginia Two Months After the Flood. Scalawag Magazine. September 2016.

To Stay in the Loving Arms of Our Mountains. Scalawag Magazine. July 2015.