Exile and Pride

Informationen zum Autor Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Over the course of several personal essays! genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir! history! and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home! all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression! power! and resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections 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 Clear Cut: End of the Line 61 Casino: An Epilogue 71 Part II. Bodies Freaks and Queers 81 Reading Across the Grain 119 Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143 Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161 Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165 Notes 173 Index 179...

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Eli Clare

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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.

Zusammenfassung
Over the course of several personal essays, genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home, all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.

Inhalt

Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi

Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections 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

Clear Cut: End of the Line 61

Casino: An Epilogue 71

Part II. Bodies

Freaks and Queers 81

Reading Across the Grain 119

Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143

Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161

Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165

Notes 173

Index 179