{"product_id":"rural-queer-joy-jennifer-tabler-9781646428991","title":"Rural Queer Joy: Using Social Practice Art to Increase Rural LGBTQ+ Visibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlending social science, fine arts, and the humanities, \u003ci\u003eRural Queer Joy\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the telling of rural LGBTQ+ stories affects young rural queer people today. The stories of well-known Wyoming LGBTQ+ people like Matthew Shepard, Sissy Goodwin, and Artemis Langford often center experiences of trauma and hardship, leaving little space for experiences of triumph or joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Jennifer Tabler and photographer Bailey Russel provided rural LGBTQ+ community members with an opportunity to represent their own experiences through participation in a social practice art project, asking what about being LGBTQ+ brings them joy. They then took the participants' portraits and invited them to annotate these portraits with paint, markers, paper, or other media. This kind of social practice art provides an opportunity to engage in epistemic activism through the self-empowerment of marginalized voices and perspectives, while also centering visuals of rural queer people that counter existing stereotypes and add nuance to our understanding of rural LGBTQ+ people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dynamic artwork and quotes from young rural LGBTQ+ people displayed in this book highlight how their identities are sources of joy and opportunity rather than constraint and hardship. Rural and\/or LGBTQ+ people, researchers, and teachers in the fields of community-engaged arts, gender studies, sociology of sexualities, and public humanities will find inspiration in \u003ci\u003eRural Queer Joy\u003c\/i\u003e--inspiration to rethink what it means to be rural and LGBTQ+ as well as to use social practice art to increase the visibility of other underserved communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Tabler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646428994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646428991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wyoming Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Jennifer Tabler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801440760063,"sku":"9781646428991","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rural-queer-joy-jennifer-tabler-9781646428991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}