No Hate In My Holler.
MKayla Nelson, The University of Tennesse-Knoxville Growing up in a small predominately white town in Appalachia, I was surrounded by confederate flags, derogatory terms, and...
Out of Appalachia, into the world
Katie Pickard Fawcett, McLean, VA. Grew up in Eastern Kentucky in a county that is in the bottom 5% economically in the country. I have...
Human heart dissolves all artificial boundaries.
Robin Fisher, Boulder Creek, CA. I identify with people in marginalized demographics who have experienced victimization at the hands of the social majority since I...
Appalachian does not always mean “hillbilly”
B. D. R. Huntington, WV While I was born in Appalachia, I am not a West Virginia native. Still I tend to get my dander...
