Exile and Pride

Clare Eli Clare

Description

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 27 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374879
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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p ra i s E f o r E li c l arE

“Using the language of the elemental world, [Eli Clare] delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite — a potent, lifegiving remedy.” —Alison Bechdel, creator ofFun Home: A Family Tragicomic andDykes to Watch Out For

“Eli Clare’sExile and Pride. . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays deîes categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements.” — Rachel Rosenbloom,The Women’s Review of Books

“Eli’s work detonates inside of you, right to the edges of where you balance.” —Amber L. Hollibaugh, author ofMy Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home

“The books that move us most are the ones that help us make sense of our experience, that take pieces of what we already know and put it together with new insights, new analysis, enabling us to form a fresh vision of ourselves and our lives. For me, Audre Lorde’sSister Outsiderand Adrienne Rich’s On Lies, Secrets and Silencewere such books, and there were signiîcant others along the way. And now there’s Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride.” — Suzanne Pharr, author ofHomophobia: A Weapon of Sexism

ExilE&pride

ExilE&pride

disability, quEErnEss, and libEration

ELI cLàRE With a new foreword by Aurora Levins Morales and an afterword by Dean Spade

d u k eu n i v e r s i t yp r e s s  | d u r h a ma n dl o n d o n 2 0 1 5 |

© 1999, 2009 Eli Clare Originally published by South End Press îrst edition, 1999, second edition, 2009 Republished by Duke University Press, 2015 All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clare, Eli, author. Exile and pride : disability, queerness, and liberation / Eli Clare. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-6016-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-6031-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-7487-9 (e-book) 1. Clare, Eli. 2. Women political activists — United States — Biography. 3. Cerebral palsied — United States — Biography. 4. Transgender people — United States — Biography. I. Title. hq 1426. c 56 2015 306.76'8092 — dc23 [B] 2015016312

Cover art: Photo of a Douglass Fir burl, North Cascades National Park, Washington. Danita Delimont / Alamy.

To the rocks and trees, hills and beaches

co nt E nt s

foreword to the 2015 edition, Aurora Levins Morales, xi

preface to the 2009 edition: a challenge to single-issue politics: reections from a decade later, xxi

a note about gender, or why is this white guy writing about being a lesbian?, xxvii

the mountain, 1

part i. placE

clearcut: explaining the distance, 17

losing home, 31

clearcut: brutes and bumper stickers, 51

clearcut: end of the line, 61

casino: an epilogue, 71

part ii. bodiEs

freaks and queers, 81

reading across the grain, 119

stones in my pockets, stones in my heart, 143

acknowledgments to the 1999 edition, 161

afterword to the 2009 edition, Dean Spade, 165

notes, 173

index, 179