Description
Book SynopsisOver the course of several personal essays, genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home, all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.
Trade Review"Eli Clare's
Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements."
-- Rachel Rosenbloom * Women's Review of Books *
Table of ContentsForeword 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
