![]() ![]() Sexuality is often noted as one potential intersection of marginalization-along with positionalities like race, class, and gender in what Yep critiques as a “mantra” that “produces a flat, formulaic, superficial, and “roster- like approach” to intersectionality by simply listing such categories as components of an individual’s identity. As someone born and raised in a small town in Northern Alabama, that version of the South was all I had ever known. The South that I knew was washed in the romantic light of nostalgia, allowed by Whiteness and youth. ![]() The South that I knew was lard-based biscuits on the front porch of a great aunt who I hardly knew it was that weekend in October when the “Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention” would descend on my hometown it was my parents’ accents, my grandmother’s garden, and “lightnin’ bugs” lazily drifting through humid summer nights. Like Stolzfus-Brown notes, the South expects a certain kind of cis-heteronormativity: “Assimilating into Southern culture meant being passive-aggressively xenophobic…embracing god and country along with my accent, and eschewing higher education in favor of settling down.” 4 For a variety of reasons, the prescribed performance of (White) Southern masculinity did not sit well with me, but at the same time it did not feel like it was a total picture of the South that I knew. ![]()
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