A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US, Neema Avashia doesn't fit the image many may have about Appalachians. Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT UnitedShades heads to Appalachia to show what it’s really like in this misunderstood region.
For more on Appalachia, tune in to CNN this Sunday as W. Kamau Bell meets the region's largely unknown Black population."United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell" airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she's from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn't fit the image many Americans have about Appalachians: impoverished, rural and White. But those stereotypes about Appalachia don't reflect the place where she was born and raised.
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