Exile and Pride

<div>First published in 1999 the groundbreaking <i>Exile and Pride</i> 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 <i>Exile and Pride</i> pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves in all their complexity can be realized loved and embraced.<br></div>