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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.
Contents
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
