Country Queers - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Rae Garringer does an excellent job of situating these oral histories within the time, place, and political moment of recording, as well as contextualizing them within the current American moment, through uplifting Black and indigenous / queer and trans futures and actively encouraging support for those communities by linking to campaigns and fundraisers. This podcast is a great teaching tool for courses in American history and social studies and does a phenomenal job of imagining human / environmental sustainability by learning from Black and indigenous / queer and trans cosmologies.

Rae Garringer is an excellent writer with a beautiful voice, both written and spoken, who looks head on, with clear insight and without flinching, at the system that has erased queer lives and history along with the lives of people of color and other marginalized people.

But this podcast is about other people’s stories. Important stories that need to be heard. As they quote, “Country is complicated,"; it’s also home.

This podcast launched at the perfect time. Being queer in the country has felt particularly isolating during COVID-19 distancing. Thank you for creating this space to connect with queer stories.

I have been waiting for this podcast to drop. I knew it was going to be amazing... but that doesn’t even begin to describe it. Listen, and listen again. Learn and grow and feel the beauty of country queers💖