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.
- Contents
- Foreword to the 2015 edition, Aurora Levins Morales
- Preface to the 2009 edition: A challenge to single-issue politics: reflections from a decade later
- A Note about Gender, or Why Is This White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?
- The mountain
- Part I. Place
- Clearcut: Explaining the distance
- Losing home
- Clearcut: Brutes and bumper stickers
- Clearcut: End of the line
- Casino: An epilogue
- Part II. Bodies
- Freaks and queers
- Reading across the grain
- Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart
- Acknowledgments to the 1999 edition
- Afterword to the 2009 edition, Dean Spade
- Notes
- Index
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