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First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Delight is essential to the annals and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory authoring his experience as a white disabled genderqueer activist/article writer established him among the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently altered the landscaping of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to fact and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories that our ever-evolving sense of personal unfolds. His essays weave collectively memoir, record, and politics thinking to explore meanings and experience of home: home as place, community, systems, id, and activism. Here listeners will find an intersectional platform for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, ability, and level of resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental damage and capitalism, sexuality and institutional assault, gender and your body politic, is a demand social justice activities that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and soul and hammer, Exile and Delight pries open a screen onto a world where our whole selves, in all their intricacy, can be became aware, adored, and embraced.
