Retracing rural and Queer literacies
An autoethnographic dialogue with rural Queer scholars
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https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v35i3.794Keywords:
rural education, literacy, Queer identities, Mobility, autoethnographyAbstract
This autoethnographic essay explores the concepts of mobility and literacy development by unpacking my rural, Queer journey—from closeted farm kid to openly Queer educator to rural, Queer scholar. To guide this autoethnography, I used five grounding texts, each explicitly reflecting rural Queer literacies. These texts were points of inquiry acting as earworms, continuously reminding me of my own rural Queer literacies. Following this dialogical reflection, I reference three understandings related to rural and Queer literacy development focusing on mobility, literacy as identity kits, and the influences of cis-heteronormativity and metronormativity. These understandings underscore the fluidity of mobility as it relates to literacy development, while also illustrating how mobility can complicate lifeworlds and challenge assumptive narratives of rurality and Queerness.
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