Roadkill is about Tillie, a lonely roadkill removal worker whose life is destabilized when Wanda, a lively stranger, comes to town. Much of Roadkill is based on the experience of being queer in a working class, rural community. When I was a girl, not only did I never see myself represented in my own community, but I also never felt represented in the media. Queer characters only seemed to exist safely in the wealthy, metropolises. So, through high school, I denied the sexuality that I thought would have betrayed me in a rural world. Then, in college, I cut ties with my roots in order to study my queerness. After years of struggling, defining, reshaping and finally peacefully resting in that queerness, I returned to my parents’ farm in order to connect these two enormous parts of myself, my ruralness and my queerness. I learned that not only could they coexist, but that they complimented, even elevated one another. My goal with Roadkill is to show that sexuality doesn’t have to exist separately from economic status or location.