Skylar Baker-Jordan is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Independent, Newsweek, Business Insider, and elsewhere. He is contributing editor for community engagement at 100 Days in Appalachia and currently lives in East Tennessee.
The governor’s choice of Silas House as the state’s poet laureate has caused a backlash among Republicans. What should be controversial are the anti-LGBTQ measures that House and others have opposed, writes Skylas Baker-Jordan for The Daily Yonder.
Willie Carver said his problems did not stem from a single parent on a soapbox but resulted from the failure of administration to stand up for teachers against baseless and offensive allegations.
"... I don’t think stereotypes are a great way of judging an entire region. For rural America contains multitudes. As do I," writes Leslie County, Kentucky, native Skylar Baker-Jordan.
