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Articles by R. Garringer
Palestinian journalists under attack: A letter of media solidarity
This op-ed was co-published by In These Times, Mainline, Mondoweiss, Prism, The Real News Network, Reckon, Scalawag, and Truthout. As journalists and media workers, we know that silencing a free press is a key tactic of authoritarian governments. We are horrified that the Israeli military has now murdered an unprecedented number of journalists and media workers in Gaza—at least 75 people as of December 4.
The media's extractive telling of Appalachia
The full text of this piece was originally published in Scalawag's 2018 Summer Issue 13. A shortened version previously ran online with the headline "Telling tales: How the media fails Appalachia." That country was beautiful, I swear to you, the most beautiful place I've ever been. Beautiful and terrible. It is the country of my dreams and the country of my nightmares: a pure pink and blue sky, red dirt, white clay, and all that endless green—willows and dogwood and firs going on for miles.
A Country Queers Dispatch – Scalawag
Keep up with the Country Queers project by subscribing on Patreon! In 2011 I moved back home to the farm where I was raised in southeastern West Virginia. I moved home 'cause I was homesick, and because I was literally sick and needing the support of family to get better. I moved home 'cause in 10 years away I'd never stopped comparing every single landscape to West Virginia, and talking loudly (and obnoxiously) about how nowhere was as beautiful as that land that raised me.
Telling tales: How the media fails Appalachia – Scalawag
These are complicated times for those of us who work in stories. Writing, publishing, and documenting our world has never been uncomplicated work. But these days we live amidst so much media. Layers and layers of voice, image, emotion, opinion, chatter. Constant dialogue, constant disagreement. The question of who we listen to—whose voices we value, which stories we pay attention to and why—seems to be growing more crucial by the second. This question has never been apolitical.
A love letter to West Virginia two months after the flood – Scalawag
Editor's note: the two-month anniversary of the devastating West Virginia flooding was August 23rd. I dreamt I was in a house floating down the river. Water rushed up the stairway as if gravity had been reversed. I swam up those stairs, pulling myself by the railing through thick muddy water to a room where a childhood friend and her five-year-old daughter stood in the corner. The house hit a steep bank, or maybe it was the mountain-side.
To stay in the loving arms of our mountains – Scalawag
I take the back roads to work, winding along the one-lane switchback curves that climb the steep slope of Muddy Creek Mountain. I avoid the interstate, which is easy to do when you live in West Virginia. I listen to NPR as I follow the creek down the other side of the mountain, losing reception around every other curve.
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