Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.Īt the root of Eli’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. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home. With a poet’s devotion to truth and an activist’s demand for justice, Eli unspools the multiple histories from which our sense of self unfolds. 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 changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. 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.First published in 1999 by South End Press (a second edition came out in 2009 and was republished by Duke University Press in 2015), Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. 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.

New condition.įirst 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