Exile and Pride

Informationen zum Autor Eli Clare Klappentext 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. He can be found on the web at . 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

Autorentext

Eli Clare

Klappentext

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. He can be found on the web at .

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