Rednex Rising Podcast

22/10/2024

🥳🥳 Rednecks Rising & HayCo Pride are now partnering to share a storage unit for ongoing, longterm, year-round mutual aid in Haywood County!

Our Haywood County Pride organizers were devastated when Hurricane Helene caused us to have to cancel our Free Market and the Q***r Culture Celebration — for our first big event as a nonprofit, we knew mutual aid and community connection needed to be at the center, which is why the Free Market became such an important component of the event. Now, we can do the work we were planning to do, but we can get creative about what it looks like!

Over the last 3.5 weeks since the flood, Rednecks Rising & HayCo Pride members have been organizing around the clock across multiple counties and in collaboration with a beautiful mycelium network of mutual aid groups and autonomous individuals. Stay tuned for the next iteration of this work together as we make this little spot a cozy and safe place for our Q***r community to gather and take care of each other!

02/10/2023

New episode to kick off season 2, now available for all eager ears to listen to!

Check out this enlightening and inspiring conversation with our friends Max and Hil, who share their stories, describe the amazing organizing that has been catalyzed in Haywood County since the fiasco with transphobia at the Rec Center, and dig into the importance of local elections.

30/09/2023

September mood board. Season 2 launch coming next week with a kick-off episode featuring our local badasses who have been organizing against transphobia and The Buttered Bigots with - Tune in to hear about how organizing is for everybody, and how it intersects with and can heal our past trauma at the hands of injustice. 💫

26/08/2023

All in all, it was a VERY successful adventure for the brave souls that UNDOUBTEDLY left a nice Butt Print on the Buttered Bigot. And, to sum up a few of the names of the stankiest asses that you should avoid in Haywood County, we have:

Ted Vargo & the Buttered Bigot
David Lovett, old Floridian Hater Gater
Jess Scott, the great rumormonger & boy who cried wolf
Stephanie Sutton, who can’t muster up local support so has to call in the likes of David Lovett & Cat Lady
Pam Arrington, Haywood County Conservative’s strongest keyboard warrior who cowers when called to speak up IRL

For more, check out the most recent issue of Haywood Butt Prints at: https://haywoodbuttprints.com/2023/08/25/well-butter-our-biscuits-lets-crash-the-fash-party/

25/08/2023

The heroes that Haywood County needs & deserves:

Alright, alright… we know: it’s an interesting choice for the name of this newsletter, especially for those of you who might be reading this with exactly zero context. So let’s la…

27/07/2023

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Women were not allowed to perform on stage in England until 1660, which meant that men in wigs and dresses would depict female characters in Shakespeare’s most iconic plays. In modern theater, a strong tradition of drag on stage remains to this day.

For info on UpCountry's drag show on July 29th:
https://fb.me/e/1ea7YfeKf

To donate to Transylvania County Rainbow Alliance:
https://gofund.me/da348356

Please share and we will see you on Saturday!

10/01/2023

New episode now available wherever you listen to podcasts!

In today's episode, we kick off the new year by digging into the history of the for-profit adoption industry in America. We touch on key players like the Orphan Trains, Georgia Tann, and Appalachia's own Dr. Thomas Hicks. But first! We have some exciting announcements that you don't want to miss, and I take my first swing at covering some current events taking place in West Virginia.

This week's episode contains a TW for content related to child trafficking/abuse and issues related to adoption/reproduction/abortion/infertility.

12/08/2022

Okay, now that I have sufficiently made my way headfirst into the rabbit hole of race and labor over the course of the last 4 parts to the series, I can't decide which episode I want to publish next... I need your input!!! For the episode coming up this Tuesday, which one do you want to hear most? Take the poll to let me know! ⬇️👀

https://bit.ly/3QB1LRY

10/08/2022

Voting isn't going to save us, but we can't deny the role that it plays in harm reduction. North Carolina is currently an abortion safe haven for many across the SouthEast & abortion access in NC hinges on the outcomes of this year’s fall elections.

Abortion remains legal in the state, but continued access hinges on the outcomes of this year’s fall elections.

09/08/2022

🪕 Calling all of our critter comrades & bluegrass lovers! 🦨

In today's episode me and Clover Lynn (AKA HillbillyGothic) dig into their journey as a banjo player and we explore questions like: Who defines Appalachia? What does it mean to be poor or middle class? What is it like being trans in Appalachia and how is it different from being trans in other areas?

🔗You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts at http://linktr.ee/rednecksrising

💬Let us know your thoughts after you give it a listen!

07/08/2022

In Exchange for a Climate Deal, Joe Manchin Demanded a Terrible Price. The West Virginia senator has agreed to support climate action, but only after ensuring his home state will remain a fossil fuel fiefdom. For-profit politicians must be stopped. https://bit.ly/3JwBSAo

The West Virginia senator has agreed to support climate action, but only after ensuring his home state would remain a fossil fuel fiefdom

03/08/2022

👀 We get all up in this fiery subject in episode 9. We forgot to mention in yesterday's post that you can find us wherever you listen to your podcasts at this link: http://linktr.ee/rednecksrising.......................................
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02/08/2022

How very timely considering the subject of today's episode. Capitalism will never allow for a government that represents anyone other than the wealthy elite and their corporate interests. https://cnn.it/3vxMXve

The permitting deal was struck between Manchin, Schumer and Pelosi to secure Manchin's vote on the larger economic and energy package.

30/07/2022

"Eastern Tennessee and Southern Appalachia are no strangers to floods. This month communities across Eastern Tennessee and Southwest Virginia were hit with heavy flooding. When I lived in Wise County, Virginia, I felt like you could always tell someone’s wealth by how close they lived to the bottom of the holler and creek. This past weekend, the flooding came home...

Community members moved in to meet a global catastrophe.. Our government and systems were never designed to take care of us...

Right now, we’re mucking the space and picking up the pieces. We are trashing ruined supplies, equipment, and gear, but most importantly we are dreaming about tomorrow. The flood may have brought with it some pain and destruction, but it also fertilized our desires. The community response to this flood has been immediate. Funding drives have been set up. Work days scheduled. Dumpsters filled, and we’re mobilizing with multiple networks in order to continue our work into the future. MASK, and the collective groups that worked out of there have touched thousands of Knoxville community members’ lives over the past couple of years, and we aren’t going to stop. Mutual aid is built on trust and commitment to each other, and we will do what we can to continue to develop that."

When The Floods Come: Mutual Aid in the Face of Rising Waters in Appalachia from It’s Going Down A personal reflection of the recent floods in Appalachia and their impact on autonomous and mutual aid organizing. I hate floods. The unstoppable rush of water, waste, runoff, debris, trash, and lives,...

29/07/2022

It was Western NC & Eastern Tennessee in the fall of 2021. And this year it's already been Virginia, Kentucky, WV, and more of Tennessee. When will we learn that we must approach infrastructure from a lens of communal sustainability and regeneration? https://bit.ly/3Sco9m9

JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor said Friday that 16 people have died in Appalachian flooding, and the toll will rise as rescue teams search the disaster area. “The tough news is 16 confirmed fatalities now, and folks that’s going to get a lot higher,” the governor said during a mid...

29/07/2022

This ammunition plant in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia openly burns toxic military munitions & other waste, just like the burn pits used in Iraq & Afghanistan that have been connected to serious health consequences. The government has been openly killing Appalachians since before the first use of Marshall Law in these mountains to break up unionization efforts and protect the interests of the corporate elite. Are we surprised this is happening? No. Are we disappointed and filled with rage? Yes.

Citizens for Arsenal Accountability's Alyssa Carpenter talks about her group’s demand of the Pentagon to end open pit burning of toxic munitions at Virginia’s Radford Army Ammunition Plant

28/07/2022

If you haven't listened to episode 8 with Sierra Kennedy yet, it's a real doozie! We talk about her experiencing surviving law school as a working class Indigenous single mom and how every system in this country was shaped to uphold white supremacy & capitalism, including the so-called "legal" system ⚖️

🔊Listen now on Spotify, Apple, Google, or wherever else you download your podcasts -- you can find all the streaming platforms where the podcast is currently available at https://bit.ly/3PXnJhI

26/07/2022

In today's episode, I sit down with Sierra Kennedy - an Indigenous Appalachian single mom of three t