In my belated boyhood I often find myself reflecting on growing up as a queer girl in Nebraska. The relationship I share with the state seemingly parallels my relationship with my body–an almost reluctant home. When you drive down the interstate, and see religious and conservative iconography littering the rolling plains, you can understand why so many would assume this state snuffs out any life that isn’t white and straight. While it suffocates, it does not entirely consume. Still, many–like myself–will leave for a chance to breathe. Migrating is tied to survival, and queer people are told to move to live, so what does that mean for those who stay or come back? Nebraska Clarified uses the literature of my adolescence to mold a movement vocabulary based on the stagnation and migration of queer midwesterners. Alongside that movement is a reclamation of boyhood–a way of growing up that is very specific to places like Nebraska. The work incorporates movement, variations of folk music, and poems and prose to invoke the imagery of the trans midwesterner.