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Introduction Introduction
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Queer Activism and Appalachian Eco-Connections Queer Activism and Appalachian Eco-Connections
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MVP Background and Resistance MVP Background and Resistance
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Normative Research in Perspective Normative Research in Perspective
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MVP and #NODAPL MVP and #NODAPL
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Orientation on the Blockade Orientation on the Blockade
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Interview Notes: Nettle and Lauren—Eco-Disorientation Interview Notes: Nettle and Lauren—Eco-Disorientation
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Transgender/Nonbinary Embodiment in Eco-activist Orientation Transgender/Nonbinary Embodiment in Eco-activist Orientation
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Trans Eco Senses—Anonymous and Ember Trans Eco Senses—Anonymous and Ember
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Arboreal Blockaders: “Queer/Trans Moments of Critical Appalachian Eco-action”
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Published:April 2024
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Abstract
This chapter provides a queer phenomenological analysis of audio reportage gathered from female and LGBTQIA arboreal blockaders living in an activist camp on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in SW Virginia. Arboreal blockaders refers to citizens who construct wooden platforms in trees and live or literally "sit" on these platforms for extended periods (days to months) as a method of civil disobedience and activism to prevent the individual tree itself from being cut down by commercial companies wishing to clear land for timber, natural gas, or coal. This is also colloquially referred to as "tree-sitting." The Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC is a private company constructing a natural gas pipeline (Mountain Valley Pipeline - MVP) currently slated to cross 300+ miles from northwestern West Virginia to Southwest Virginia carrying natural gas from the Appalachian Marcellus and Utica Shale gas fields to the eastern and southern US. The actions of the blockaders are couched in the history of queer embodied activism in the US and Appalachia. The intersectional concerns of European descent US queer eco-activism with Indigenous pipeline resistance are explored and articulated. Pancake discusses the productive intersectional possibilities of phenomenological disorientation in ecological activism as well as the potential for a deeper understanding of transgender self-expression and self-efficacy through eco-phenomenological experiences with activist blockading.
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