Ep. 34 | Testimonies
In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Rae Garringer and Chris Aluka Berry.
Books Mentioned
Country Queers: A Love Letter by Rae Garringer
Affrilachia: Testimonies by. Chris Aluka Berry
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Southernmost by Silas House
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
Praising for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkerson
When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African American People in Far Western North Carolina by Ann Miller Woodford
Little Worlds by Rob Amberg
A is for Affrilachia by Frank X Walker
Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William Turner
Guest Info
(c) Lou Murrey
Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Shawandasse Tula (Shawnee) homelands. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. Their writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Cultures, Scalawag Magazine, Appalachian Review, and beyond. When not working with stories, Rae spends a lot of time failing at keeping goats in fences, swimming in the river, and two-stepping around their trailer.
(c) Chris Aluka Berry
Chris Aluka Berry has worked in the South as an award-winning documentary photographer for more than twenty years, and his images have appeared in major American and international publications. He currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina with the love of his life and two beautiful dogs.
