6/22/2023 0 Comments Neema avashia bookNeema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality, continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.Īnother Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia’s identity as a queer, desi, Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving, “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. West Virginia native Neema Avashia will be joined in conversation by S Brook Corfman to celebrate her debut memoir, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
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