Title

Rural Drag: Fashioning Rurality and Privilege

Publication Date

2017

Document Type

Article

Abstract

"Rural drag" is the appropriation, arrangement, and deployment of rural objects, practices, and aesthetics in order to assert membership in and support for white, settler heteropatriarchy. This rhetorical practice draws from a cultural repository of rural symbols and tropes called the "rural imaginary" to establish a rhetorical link between rural space and the privileges of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism.

Original Citation

Nichols, G.W. (2017). Rural Drag: Fashioning Rurality and Privilege. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 4(3) 41-66.

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