“They are much more focused on surviving and being connected to a community is important to them.” “They think they are getting things done,” she explains. The narratives of minority and queer truckers underscore the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one’s safety, dignity, and selfhood,” the description reads.īalay says that there is something empowering about driving a truck, especially for minority populations.
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“A licensed commercial truck driver herself, Balay discovers that, for people routinely subjected to prejudice, hatred, and violence in their hometowns and in the job market, trucking can provide an opportunity for safety, welcome isolation, and a chance to be themselves – even as the low-wage work is fraught with tightening regulations, constant surveillance, danger, and exploitation. In both cases, lives are heavily influenced by others and their perceptions.Īccording to the book’s description on Amazon, Semi Queer is as much about the working-class struggled to survive, as it is about gay or trans truck drivers. In life, it may be family or societal pressures in trucking it’s the clock and the regulatory restrictions that tell you when and how long you can drive. In some ways, driving a truck mirrors life for some gay, trans and blacks today. “ what was it about this particular lifestyle that made it ?” “When I was, there were just queers out everywhere, trans everywhere, and I was just charmed by that,” she explains. While a truck driving career didn’t work out for her (she didn’t like the regulations and the paperwork requirements), it provided the impetus to explore the topic in more detail. The idea for this new book came to her when she was driving herself in Wisconsin.
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The two books share some commonality beyond the subject matter, and that is they focus on blue-collar careers and the lives these workers live. In 2014, she published her first book, Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers. She is currently coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford College. … It was really important to me to write about that, to tell the story.”īalay herself has experienced an interesting life journey, including time spent as a mechanic, a truck driver (she still has her CDL), and a visiting professor at several universities. “It’s as if all the people who write about trucking don’t know the population of trucking is changing. “There has been a lot of stories about trucking, but almost all of the truckers portrayed in these are straight, white men,” Balay tells FreightWaves. The book is now available on Amazon and currently ranks number 1 on Amazon’s Gay Studies book list as of Aug.
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Their stories, though, are rarely told, which is what drove author Anne Balay to spend 3 years researching truck drivers for her new book, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers.
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For gay, lesbian, transgender and black truck drivers, life on the road can be a comfort and provide a level of safety and security, in part because of the way the trucking community has accepted them. Yet it is a life that some populations find attractive, even consoling to some extent. The life of a truck driver can be a lonely one, away from home for days or weeks on end hours upon hours sitting in a cab, focused on the horizon with only your own thoughts and maybe a radio station to keep you company. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Author Anne Balay poses with her new book, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers, available now on Amazon. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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