Download or read book Queer Farms written by Ascot Avenue School (Los Angeles, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexuality and Sustainable Agriculture written by Michaela Hoffelmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspects of identity, such as gender and race, actively shape involvement in farming, yet research on sexuality as a part of identity has, thus far, been limited. Heteronormativity is entrenched in U.S. farming through the construction of the farmer and the family farm. Proponents of sustainable agriculture echo the heteronormativity of mainstream agriculture through promoting the family farm and neglecting the needs of queer farmers. Despite a supposed foundation of social equity, sustainable agriculture has yet to fully consider LGBTQ issues as a critical point of equity. At a theoretical level, sustainable agriculture promotes differences and diversity, at least in agrobiodiversity terms. This research expands the sustainable agriculture movements construction of agrobiodiversity to include diversity in human identities, specifically with regard to queerness. Queer people have been displaced from rural and farming communities as acceptance, visibility, and resources have been historically associated with urban geographies. However, the predominately rural nature of farming raises questions about how queer farmers cultivate livelihoods that appear oppositional to both queer and farming identities. The combination of metronormativity in LGBT spaces, coupled with heteronormativity in agriculture, has left queer farmers to create their own strategies and support networks to enter and remain in farming. This research aimed to understand the barriers and opportunities that queer farmers encounter in maintaining a viable farm. Through an examination of on and off-farm relationships, this study documented the approaches that queer farmers utilize to farm. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations with twenty queer farmers in the northeastern US. Findings show that the obfuscation of queer sexualities and non-cisgender identities in agriculture burdens queer farmers with developing relationships to gain acceptance and access to farming resources. Farmers utilized specific strategies that allowed them to build networks of non-queer and queer customers, neighbors, and mentors. As queer farmers perceived or in some cases experienced heterosexism, this compromised opportunities for continued participation in agriculture. Because of the visibility of gender compared to sexuality, transgender, non-binary, and women farmers faced additional hurdles with participating in farming. Overall, queer farmers developed formal and informal support networks that had powerful benefits; however, these efforts have primarily arisen in reaction to a lack of support for rural and farming LGBTQ livelihoods. Research on queer farmers begins to address gaps in the literature in queer studies, rural studies, and gender and agriculture. This research indicates that queer farmers expect heterosexism both in farming and the broader community, thus the sustainable agriculture movement as a whole needs to take seriously the implications that sexuality has on queer farmers' ability to engage in agriculture. Promoting farming as a viable livelihood for future farmers rests, in part, in encouraging participation from diverse identities, including queer populations who have been primarily overlooked as current and future farmers. Like women farmers, queer farmers require greater structural support through policy. Additionally, sustainable agriculture organizations should develop queer-specific programming and support to shift the burden of acceptance and visibility away from the individual. Finally, USDA and farming organizations need to change data collection, which, by and large, erases the presence of queer people in agriculture.
Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.
Download or read book Farm Boys written by Will Fellows and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, these plain-spoken accounts will move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city. “When I was fifteen, the milkman who came to get our milk was beautiful. This is when I was really getting horny to do something with another guy. I waited every day for him to come. I couldn’t even talk to him, couldn’t think of anything to say. I just stood there, watching him, wondering if he knew why.”—Henry Bauer, Minnesota “When I go back home, I feel a real connection with the land—a tremendous feeling, spiritual in a way. It makes me want to go out into a field and take my shoes off and put my feet right on the dirt, establish a real physical connection with that place. I get homesick a lot, but I don’t know if I could ever go back there and live. It’s not the kind of place that would welcome me if I lived openly, the way that I would like to live. I would be shunned.”—Martin Scherz, Nebraska “If there is a checklist to see if your kid is queer, I must have hit every one of them—all sorts of big warning signs. I was always interested in a lot of the traditional queen things—clothes, cooking, academics, music, theater. A farm boy listening to show tunes? My parents must have seen it coming.”—Joe Shulka, Wisconsin “My favorite show when I was growing up was ‘The Waltons’. The show’s values comforted me, and I identified with John-Boy, the sensitive son who wanted to be a writer. He belonged there on the mountain with his family, yet he sensed that he was different and that he was often misunderstood. Sometimes I still feel like a misfit, even with gay people.”—Connie Sanders, Illinois “Agriculture is my life. I like working with farm people, although they don’t really understand me. When I retire I want the word to get out [that I’m gay] to the people I’ve worked with—the dairy producers, the veterinarians, the feed salesmen, the guys at the co-ops. They’re going to be shocked, but their eyes are going to be opened.”—James Heckman, Indiana
Download or read book Living Queer History written by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving &8239;historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present.
Download or read book The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture written by Carolyn Sachs and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. The authors' feminist agrifood systems theory (FAST) values women's ways of knowing and working in agriculture and has the potential to shift how farmers, agricultural professionals, and anyone else interested in farming think about gender and sustainability, as well as to change how feminist scholars and theorists think about agriculture.--COVER.
Download or read book Out in the Field Lesbian and Queer Farmers in the Rural Midwest written by Jaclyn Wypler and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic dissertation about queerness in Midwestern agriculture. While gender and sexuality influence all farmers, cisgender and/or heterosexual farmers' career trajectories are often regarded as the norm, minimizing queer experiences. This work centers queer gender and sexuality by examining how lesbian, bisexual women, transgender people, and queer women (LBTQ) build community in, through, and beyond farming. In other words, how does queerness shape Midwest LBTQ sustainable farmers' pathways into and out of agriculture, agricultural networks, and relationships with neighboring farmers? I argue that farming as a queer person equates to navigating heteropatriarchal oppression while exerting queer resistance. Queer farmers challenge dominant agricultural models and proliferate alternative possibilities for the future of agriculture in the United States. Chapter One, "Coming Out and Burning Out: Farming Entry and Exit for Lesbian and Queer Agriculturalists," addresses the future of farming. I argue that LBTQ sustainable farmers followed non-traditional pathways into farming and their entry points diverged from heterosexual women farmers as they lacked familial and spousal pathways to land. I find that heteropatriarchy, not just patriarchy, created entry barriers and exit points for LBTQ farmers, while queer sexuality simultaneously pushed some individuals into farming and pulled others away from the field. I conclude by challenging the bifurcation of farm entry and exit, instead viewing the career of a LBTQ person in sustainable agriculture as a daily practice involving queer resistance to heteropatriarchal oppression. Chapter Two, "Lesbian and Queer Sustainable Farmer Networks in the Midwest," examines LBTQ farmers' connections to agriculture networks. While LBTQ farmers utilized government agencies, neighborhood farmers, sustainable agriculture groups, and women farmer groups, these outlets did not necessarily align with their sustainable practices or queer identity. LBTQ farmers created alternative networks, queer networks, to access human resources necessary to enter and remain in sustainable agriculture. I conclude that LBTQ farmer networks and labor market opportunities circumvented heteropatriarchal gatekeepers to human resources, providing LBTQ farmers direct pathways to knowledge, skills, and social networks to bolster their success as sustainable land managers. Chapter Three, "Land Allyship: The Promises and Limitations of Rural Solidarities," explores LBTQ farmers' relationships with their rural farming neighbors. I argue that the LBTQ farmers combined a politics of difference and a politics of similarity to build bonds with rural farming neighbors. I term this process land allyship: a commitment to a shared threatened value of rural agrarianism. In a moment of threat to small- and medium-sized farms, 'farmer' became a more salient identity than sexuality or farming practices. LBTQ farmers found belonging in rural communities as farmers, even if their sexuality was not centered or fully accepted. While land allyship offered a pathway for some farmers, it was more available to white LBTQ farmers than to farmers of color or gay cisgender men. The dissertation identifies barriers and inroads for queer people looking to enter and contribute to sustainable agriculture, addressing sociologically intriguing questions about small farms' economic viability and rural communities' social sustainability. Bringing a queer feminist lens to ethnographic and interview research with LBTQ farmers, I demonstrate that gender and sexuality influence access to land and capital, social networks, and community ties. The work contributes to understanding agricultural career pathways, necessary resources for farmers, and bonds across difference. The work frames gender and sexuality as foundational elements to rural agricultural analysis, seeking to re-orient environmental sociology to consider feminist and queer perspectives in any analysis. The dissertation also centers queer experiences in predominately rural settings, urging sexualities scholars to continually examine queer life beyond and between urban landscapes. These perspectives alter the analysis grid to enrich social and economic investigations within environmental sociology and within sexualities scholarship. Beyond the academy, queer people must be acknowledged and centered in real-world efforts to strengthen sustainable food systems and resilient rural communities.
Download or read book A Call to Farms Reconnecting to Nature Food and Community in a Modern World written by Jennifer Grayson and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope for the future lies with a new generation of regenerative farmers. Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace. These new farmers are embracing regenerative agriculture—the holistic approach to growing food that restores the soil and biodiversity—in the movement to reclaim our health and the planet’s. But can their efforts help reverse an epidemic of diet-related disease, food inequality, and even climate change? To answer that question and more, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking farmer training program, then embarked on this investigative journey. The diverse array of farmers, graziers, and food activists whom she profiles here are working toward better, more sustainable foodways for all. From a one-acre market garden in Oregon to activists reviving food sovereignty in South Carolina, A Call to Farms tells the captivating story of these new agrarians finding hope and purpose in reconnecting to the land and striving to improve the future of American food.
Download or read book Farm Boys written by Will Fellows and published by . This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about the lives of gay men who grew up on farms in the midwestern United States during the twentieth century"--Pref. Includes narratives from Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois.
Download or read book Wallace s Farm and Dairy written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Kale written by Kristin Reynolds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture-fresh food, green space, educational opportunities-can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Beyond the Kale argues that urban agricultural projects focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change. Through in-depth interviews and public forums with prominent urban agriculture activists and supporters-primarily people of color and women, whose strategies have often been underrespresented in the literature Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen illustrate how urban farmers and gardeners not only grow food for their communities but also use their activities and spaces to disrupt the dynamics of power and privilege that perpetuate inequity. Beyond the Kale provides recommendations for these in philanthropy, government, nonprofit organizations, and academia to support such initiatives. Book jacket.
Download or read book 30 Queer Lives written by Matt McEvoy and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders.Soldiers, politicians, Olympians, doctors, musicians, academics, businesspeople, farmers, writers and fa&‘afafine . . . the thirty LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders in this book are remarkable individuals. They each speak with candour and honesty about their challenges and successes, and together they show how LGBTQIA+ people strengthen the rich culture of Aotearoa.From the famous — Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chl&öe Swarbrick — to the less well known, these stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.
Download or read book The Bellman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweeter Voices Still written by Ryan Schuessler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking nonfiction collection about queer life in the Midwest. "A marvelous ode to humanity and its passions."-- Little Village The middle of America―the Midwest, Appalachia, the Rust Belt, the Great
Download or read book Out in the Country written by Mary L. Gray and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable Mention An unprecedented contemporary account of the online and offline lives of rural LGBT youth From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly—and often vibrantly—work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term ‘queer visibility’ and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. Out in the Country is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.
Download or read book Feminist Weed Farmer written by Madrone Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An experienced cannabis farmer, feminist, and zen practitioner teaches you to grow up to six plants to yield a professional-grade crop of legal, medicinal weed"--Provided by publisher.
