User talk:FrEvBrt/sandbox

Hey there!

I am really excited to be peer reviewing this piece, which I think is a hugely important contribution to Wikipedia. One thing I am noticing as I begin reading is the presence of some vague claims about perception and imagination regarding rurality and queerness: "In popular depictions, rurality is often portrayed as an inherently incompatible, or even hostile, environment..." in p. 1, "There is a wide gap in the assumed experience of queer individuals within a rural versus urban setting. Rurality is assumed to be a more repressive, less accepting environment for individuals whose sexual orientation is non-heterosexual or whose gender identity defies conventions of binary gender. In contrast, urban areas, particularly within the context of the U.S., are imagined to be safer, more accommodating spaces for non-heterosexual individuals" at the start of the U.S. Rural/Urban Dichotomy section. Who is doing the portrayal or assuming here? Are there any sources you could cite or otherwise mention that show these assumptions? Even some references to pop cultural examples of this might work.

I love the Mary Gray quote as a discussion of the urban-centric issues with some strains of queer theory. That adds a lot of good context!

In "authors Meredith Redlin and Alexis Annes' find that the migratory flow between urban and rural is not unidirectional, but rather identifies multiple patterns of migration," would "includes" work better than "identifies"? Or maybe changing it to "identify" to refer back to the 2 authors?

Overall, I think this is looking really good! I stopped at the point you noted as being not ready for peer review yet but I'd be happy to look over more when you'd like another set of eyes on it.

BaileyPoland (talk) 14:21, 26 July 2018 (UTC)