{"id":1836,"date":"2023-11-17T18:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T23:45:38","slug":"diversity-reading-group-another-appalachia-coming-up-queer-and-indian-in-a-mountain-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2023\/11\/17\/diversity-reading-group-another-appalachia-coming-up-queer-and-indian-in-a-mountain-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Reading Group: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Friday, Dec. 1, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">9:30am &#8211; 10:30am, <\/span><strong>in Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 14.0pt\">&#8220;When Neema Avashia tells people where she\u2019s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving \u201cThere are Indian people in West Virginia?\u201d A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. 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.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Another Appalachia<\/span> examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia\u2019s identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, <span class=\"a-text-italic\">Another Appalachia<\/span> mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions&#8221; (https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Another-Appalachia-Coming-Indian-Mountain\/dp\/1952271428\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P350FUH8VDW3&amp;keywords=another+appalachia+by+neema+avashia&amp;qid=1700264641&amp;sprefix=another+appa%2Caps%2C150&amp;sr=8-1).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Segoe UI';font-size: 10.5pt;color: #252424\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Join on your computer, mobile app or room device <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_NzVkNDYxMTAtYjM1Yi00NTA4LTg4MzMtZjAyMTcyNWJiNGE1%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2251f07c22-53b7-44df-b97c-a13261d71075%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220fa86b1a-2702-43e6-b5cf-39e79e320ad2%22%7d\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI Semibold';font-size: 10.5pt\">Click here to join the meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, Dec. 1, 9:30am &#8211; 10:30am, in Teams &#8220;When Neema Avashia tells people where she\u2019s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving \u201cThere are Indian people in West Virginia?\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events","category-professional-development"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}