Feminist Book Group

Sun, 03/21/2010 - 6:00pm
Sun, 03/21/2010 - 8:00pm

This month's book is Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness & Liberation by Eli Clare.

Location: 
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, Illinois 60640

By Eli Clare, Dean Spade (Afterword by)
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780896087880
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: South End Press, 08/01/2009

First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability. 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. 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. Instead it offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the politics of oppression, power, and resistance. 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.