Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia is a forthcoming collection uplifting the voices of an extremely varied and diverse community who define Appalachia and non–metronormative queerness for themselves. Edited by Z. Zane McNeil, this book is born out of optimism situated within an Appalachian history of resistance and queerness fueled by radical community making, mutual aid, and solidarity in movements for intersecting justices.

Learn more and preorder the book on our new Kickstarter along with fantastic related titles, a limited Y'all Means All union made tote bag, and other great rewards.

Please consider choosing a "Donation" reward level and/or "Adding-on" one or more donation copies. We'll be sending these donated copies to The Stay Project, a youth-led organization in central Appalachia connecting young people to resources enabling them to stay and thrive in their communities, and the Highlander Research and Education Center, a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South since 1932. We've partnered with these amazing organizations to spread the vital voices in this book far and wide.

Thank you in advance for helping us get this book out into the world and into as many hands as possible.

Praise

"This collection is a must-read for activists and scholars seeking a fuller sense of queerness as a political enterprise always becoming and undone, shaped by an insistence that y’all matters—I can hardly think of a more pressing project for our times.”

—Mary L. Gray, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, author and editor of dozens of articles and several books, including In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth and Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America

“These deeply personal and theoretically informed essays explore the fight for social justice and inclusivity in Appalachia through the intersections of environmental action, LGBTQA+ representational politics, anti-racism, and movements for disability justice. This Appalachia is inhabited by a queer temporality and geography, where gardening lore teaches us that seeds dance into plants in their own time, not according to a straight-edged neoliberal discipline.”

—Rebecca Scott, author of Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

"This collection is disruptive and unsettling—in the very best ways. Just when we think we understand queerness in Appalachia, it is troubled and turned inside out again, leaving us uncertain and inspired to keep asking questions.”

—Meredith McCarroll, author of Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film and co-editor of Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“This exuberant collection tears away falsehoods, challenges hierarchies, and presents memoir and scholarship on new ways of understanding the Queer past and present of Appalachia. Resisting conformity, hatred, and oppression in Appalachia is to resist these nationwide. These writers demonstrate not only that Appalachia is central to LGBT activism, but also that queerness in Appalachia is central to the wider movements for dignity, equity, and social justice in the United States.”

—Steven Stoll, author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

“Weaving together stories of intersectional queer life with questions of place, politics, and belonging, Y'all Means All offers readers a nuanced and necessary portrait of Appalachia. These essays are as raw and vulnerable as they are smart and context-driven, each one offering richer understanding of the region through powerful personal testimony. A much-needed remedy to the reactionary views of Appalachia we get from mainstream presses and corporate news, this book is balm.”

—Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme

History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals – it is made by all of us. Record your own history in this classically elegant hardcover, sewn bound blank journal. An enduring repository for your thoughts, dreams, and battle plans for collective action.

This blank journal from the Working Class History project includes inspirational words of wisdom from the likes of: Audre Lorde, Emma Goldman, Ambalavaner Sivanandan, George Lamming, Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, Marsha P. Johnson, He-Yin Zhen, Frantz Fanon, CLR James, Ricardo Flores Magón, Bhagat Singh, Oscar Wilde, Walter Rodney, Ursula Le Guin, Crawford Morgan, Jayaben Desai and many more. High quality, black hardcover with gold print, containing 200 pages for your notes, followed by sources for each of the quotations and short explanations of their context.

You can preorder a copy for yourself, or as a gift for a friend or relative, by backing the Kickstarter. As rewards you can also get discounted copies of Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion, the 2022 Working Class History Wall Calendar, a union-made T-shirt featuring one of the quotations in the journal by Ursula K. Le Guin, and numerous other great PM Press titles.

Check out the rewards and add-ons for full details.

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