Nadine Hubbs, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Music, recently spoke with April Baer on Stateside and Paul Blake at AFP to reflect on the life and legacy of Dolly Parton, who passed away earlier this week.
On Stateside, Hubbs discusses several aspects of Parton’s life. She also remarks on Parton’s allyship to the LGBTQ community: “[Dolly] did not accept evil, she did not accept meanness. But she had accepted LGBTQ people for a long time, and was an ally for decades. She saw the humanity in everyone and she loved people.”
Speaking more on Parton’s role in LGBTQ lives, for AFP, Hubbs notes that it was Parton’s religious upbringing that founded her accepting outlook: “Dolly modeled how you could not only be loving and accepting of others and of yourself, but to do so within a deeply Christian framework.”
Hubbs has written on Parton’s work many times before. Read one piece about the song “Jolene.” In the Stateside conversation, April Baer also references Hubbs’ essay on “Coat of Many Colors,” as well as the “Jolene” episode on Dolly Parton’s America podcast.
Listen to the Stateside episode (Hubbs’ segment begins at minute 12:00) and read the AFP article.
