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Eli Clare

American writer, activist, educator and speaker

Eli Clare (born 1963) is an American writer, activist, educator, and speaker. His work focuses on queer, transgender, and disability issues.[1][2] Clare was one of the first scholars to popularize the bodymind concept.

Early life and education

Clare was born in Coos Bay in 1963 and grew up in Port Orford, Oregon.[3][4] He attended Reed College before transferring to Mills College where he received a degree in women's studies in 1985.[4] Clare earned an M.F.A. degree in creative writing from Goddard College in 1993.[4]

Career

Eli Clare coordinated a rape prevention program,[5] and helped organize the first Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002.[6][7]

His work is associated with the second wave of the disability rights movement[8] and disability justice.[9]

Clare has received a number of awards for his work, including the Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task F

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Eli's Bio

White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in unceded Abenaki territory (also known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of essays, the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. His next book, a mixed genre volume titled Unfurl, will be released in July, 2025. Additionally he has been published in dozens of journals and anthologies.

Eli works as a traveling poet, storyteller, and social justice educator. Since 2008, he has spoken, taught, trained, and consulted (both in-person and remotely) at well over 150 conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada. He currently serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center and is also a Disability Futures Fellow (funded by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). Among other pur

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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

June 16, 2009
Exile and Pride reads like two books in one. The first, a personal unraveling of experiences growing up poor and genderqueer with cerebral palsy in a rural white logging town in Oregon, and the second, a deeper and more theoretical analysis of ableist oppression, cultural constructions of disability, and disability activism for self-determination, also grounded in thoughtful examination of Clare's personal experience.

Clare writes ambivalently about his ties to rural land and the values espoused by the white rural poor he grew up with. He finds freedom in urban dyke culture but experiences loss of community and connection to land amongst wealthy people in the city. The first part of his book, on exile, searches for a way to create rural queer community, queer community that isn't based in the middle and upper classes. Exiled by abuse, education and political philosophy, and need for a community that would both accept and embrace his gender exploration and identity, he misses the trees and hard work of home

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