Since 2008, he has spoken, taught, and consulted (both in-person and remotely) at well over 150 conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada.

Additionally he has been published in dozens of journals and anthologies.Įli works as a traveling poet, storyteller, and social justice educator. He has written two books of essays, the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (also known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. At the heart of Clare’s exploration of environmental destruction, white working-class identity, queer community, disabled sexuality, childhood sexual abuse, coalition politics, and his own gender transition is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible for everyone.īlending prose and theory, personal experience and political debate, anger and compassion, Exile & Pride provides a window into a world where our whole selves in all their complexity can be loved and accepted.Īn award-winning poet and essayist, Eli Clare is also the author of The Marrow’s Telling. Instead it offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the politics of oppression, power, and resistance. Clare’s writing on his experiences as a genderqueer activist/writer with cerebral palsy permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation, and yet Exile & Pride is much too great in scope to be defined by even these two issues. With this critical tenth-anniversary edition, the groundbreaking publication secures its position as essential to the history of queer and disability politics, and, through significant new material that boldly interrogates and advances the original text, to its future as well. Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite-a potent, lifegiving remedy.”-Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Homeįirst published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability.

Exile and Pride by Eli Clare