Contrary to popular belief, some rural Americans are extremely invested in environmental protection and conserving resources for future generaitons.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are environmentalists here
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Places other than New York exist, and people do things in them
New York elitism is a very ugly look. Ditch it, just in time for summer!
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Trucks
The truck has become an enduring symbol of rural life, but sometimes a truck is just a truck, no matter what conservatives think.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Yes, there are liberals here
Look, I don’t know how else to say this: Please stop saying that rural America is uniformly conservative.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Government funding
17 percent of America lives in rural communities, who are often maligned by those in urban and suburban areas. Questions of government funding can be a particularly sore point.
Notes from the urban/rural divide: Heat
Heat feels like a fundamental basic human need, and right, as it should: But the world of heat and heating can be a fraught place for rural Americans.
Notes from the urban/rural underground: Yes, there are queer people here
There’s a large LGBQT rural population, but it’s largely erased in a narrative that suggests queerness only exists in cities. That serves to further isolate rural queers.
Notes from the rural/urban divide: Abortion
The story of abortion access in rural communities can turn into an elaborate, time-consuming saga.
Book review: Free Verse, Sarah Dooley
Sarah Dooley’s Free Verse is a complicated, challenging book that pushes readers to imagine the life of a child growing up in a rural mining community — without ladling on the misery porn.
Book review: The Serpent King, by Jeff Zentner
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy of the book provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered. Jeff Zentner’s The Serpent King is an absolutely fantastic book and one of my leading contenders for best book of 2016 — this sharp, insightful, sad, lyrical contemporary is a deeply satisfying if at times absolutely gutting […]