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R. Garringer

R. Garringer hails from a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia. They have been gathering oral histories with rural and small-town LGBTQIA+ folks for Country Queers since 2013, and now live in southeastern Kentucky where they work as the Public Affairs Director at WMMT 88.7fm - Appalshop's 24/7 community radio station.

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The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021

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.

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A Country Queers Dispatch

by R. Garringer July 29, 2019October 1, 2020
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Telling tales: How the media fails Appalachia

by R. Garringer March 22, 2018December 3, 2020
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Learning from the leadership of West Virginia's striking teachers

by R. Garringer March 7, 2018October 4, 2021
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"It's going to take resoluteness": Elizabeth Sanders on uprooting white supremacy in Central Appalachia and beyond

by R. Garringer January 9, 2018October 4, 2021
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A love letter to West Virginia two months after the flood

by R. Garringer September 5, 2016October 1, 2020
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To stay in the loving arms of our mountains

by R. Garringer July 29, 2015October 4, 2021

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