In this beautifully personal and bitingly critical essay, R. Garringer puts it in plain terms: Unless national outlets foster and support Appalachians in telling their own stories, the media will continue to caricature the mountain South, with no accountability to the folks who live there.
Author Archives: R. Garringer
R. Garringer hails from a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia. Rachel has been gathering oral histories with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks for Country Queers since 2013, and now lives in southeastern Kentucky where she works as the Public Affairs Director at WMMT 88.7fm - Appalshop's 24/7 community radio station.
