Exile and Pride

Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

By: Eli Clare

Narrated by: Maxwell Glick

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 listeners 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.

©1999, 2009 Eli Clare, Republished by Duke University Press 2015 (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Well worth a listen

Everyone should check out Eli Clare’s seminal work of essays dissecting intersecting oppressive systems, with a blend of personal recounts as a trans butch mixed-class white disabled person with CP growing up in the rural. Phenomenal.

This could have been written yesterday.

Even though this was written 21 years ago it's 100% still relevant, sad how little has changed in all that time. Powerful.

A book everyone should read

I feel as if I needed this book during the last week more than I ever would have before. Coastal elites and big city types have always tried to steer these conversations away from rural America.

wow, incredible

this book is a must read for folks wanting to understand the intersection of queerness and disability.

Spectacular

This is one of the most spectacular collection of essays I have heard. Eli Clare has the poetry of Walt Whitman and the prose of James Baldwin. Riveting. Insightful. Intersectional. This is phenomenal writing of the highest order. I recommend this book.