ready to reimagine what home, belonging, and queer community can look like?
Queer people are everywhere. But our stories don’t always venture beyond the city limits.
In On Queer Homesteading, memoir, history, and homesteading practices intertwine to show how tending the land and tending each other can open new pathways for joy, kinship, and possibility.
On Queer Homesteading is your permission slip to stop believing that queer joy, belonging, and connection only exist in cities and start discovering how they thrive in rural spaces. In gardens, kitchens, and shared histories.
It’s not about “fixing” your life or fleeing upstate.
It’s about unlocking the wisdom, knowledge, and kinship that have always been part of queer communities—the inner strength and collective resilience we need to endure hard times.
What Readers Are Already Saying:
“This essay is for anyone who smells the roses and finds themselves feeling connected to those who came before, and perhaps even feels moved to plant some more for future generations.”
Nina Katz
author of Squelch: A Memoir of Food, Love and Uncertainty
“On Queer Homesteading, a moving collection of short essays on lineage, queer folkways, and land, brings to surface the enduring spirit of the LGBTQ+ community through lived narratives and unwritten histories…A tribute to the vim and vigor of queer grit and radical hospitality.”
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas
author of In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (2023)