Jolie’s queerness is heavily shaped by the rural culture she grew up in - specifically in her gender identity. I had this very early understanding that queer people exist in these communities and that people are going to respond to it differently the way they would in any other community.” And he was very afraid of what the people he worked with would think. “I had this clear idea of someone who I was very close to, who I loved, who helped take care of me, who my mom loved and had no judgement about, but it was the ’90s. Chris was gay and deeply closeted, but Jolie’s mother knew, and Jolie found out herself around age 12. That was the catalyst for Jolie’s exposure to queerness - one of the guys on the race car crew moved in with Jolie’s mother. Jolie’s father was a race car driver and was hit by a drunk driver when she was four. My earliest memories of life are dirt roads, creeks, yards that went on forever, and the woods.” Jolie’s memoir, Rust Belt Femme, is an exploration of her rural foundation combined with alternative ’90s punk culture shaped her as she is today - “a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest.” Raechel Anne Jolie grew up in a rural working-class community in Northeast Ohio at “the very beginning of country Ohio, ten minutes and I was in a suburb, ten more minutes and I was in Cleveland so I was at the very edge of rural Ohio. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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