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'Both heart-rending and gorgeous. He teaches us humanity' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse to write this book' HUGH BONNEVILLE 'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving' GYLES BRANDRETH 'Full of pain and joy, concern and celebration' SIMON...

To be seen is not vanity. It is one of the oldest human hopes: to be listened to, welcomed, and counted among others. Every community teaches its members how to appear — when to speak, how to be noticed, what kind of presence is rewarded. Visibility offers warmth, recognition, and legitimacy. It also exacts a price. This audiobook begins from a simple intuition: that the desire for recognition is neither trivial nor corrupt. But it asks what happens when being seen becomes not a consequence of living well, but a condition of belonging itself.

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation.