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Allison Burkette. Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics. Mothman merchandise — and merchandise of other cryptids — has become a queer signifier, embraced by the nerdy, halloween-obsessed queer people in your life. Brenton WattsUniversity of Kentucky Follow.

3 The paper doll Mothman is a product sold by Queer Appalachia to support their mutual aid and harm reduction efforts. But their rise makes perfect sense when we look at our histories. Little work has gay conducted on the intersections of queer and Appalachian identities, in part because these two identities are viewed as incompatible Mann This study uses a multimodal critical mothman analytic approach to examine the Instagram posts of the Queer Appalachia Project, which represent a substantial body of discourse created by and for queer Appalachians.

Often, this act is accomplished through juxtaposition with Appalachian imagery and the reclamation of homophobic and anti-Appalachian tropes. As such, the doll shows up often in Mothman-related posts made by the account. How Did A Bunch Of Mythical Monsters Become Queer Icons?

As the world around us seems to descend into political and environmental chaos, Mothman and his motley crew of monsters have become queer icons — much to some people’s confusion. Where I’m from, a small town in the middle of nowhere, the gay man was the bogeyman.

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Queer people are used to being vilified, attacked, and misunderstood — so some of us embrace villains like the Babadook and the Mothman because we recognize ourselves in them. These stories range from paranormal romance to sci-fi, and we also see this in mainstream media like the She-Ra reboot and Adventure Time.

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Abstract Little work has been conducted on the intersections of queer and Appalachian identities, in part because these two identities are viewed as incompatible Mann Search Enter search terms:. My Boyfriend The Mothman Queer stories about monsters and monster-human romance are pretty common, particularly in indie books and art.

Advanced Search. My Boyfriend The Mothman by Ashton D. Sanchez features a romantic relationship between a human trans man and a gay. Faculty Dr. Jennifer Cramer. This analysis finds that the iterative positioning of such figures as queer-Appalachian icons creates a series of texts through which the performance of queer-Appalachianness both transgresses and conforms to normative expectations Pennycook In doing so, I track the real-time enregisterment of these legends as powerful discursive resources, and argue for their consideration as discursive carte blanchewhere the freedom of imagination intrinsic to folkloric discourse allows for the innovative identity work necessary for queer-Appalachian ways of life.

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