Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.

"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)

• Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales  xiPreface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later  xxiA Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?  xxviiThe Mountain  1Part I: PlaceClearcut: Explaining the Distance  17Losing Home  31Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers  51Clear Cut: End of the Line  61Casino: An Epilogue  71Part II. BodiesFreaks and Queers  81Reading Across the Grain  119Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart  143Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition  161Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade  165Notes  173Index  179

Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.

"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)

• Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales  xiPreface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later  xxiA Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?  xxviiThe Mountain  1Part I: PlaceClearcut: Explaining the Distance  17Losing Home  31Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers  51Clear Cut: End of the Line  61Casino: An Epilogue  71Part II. BodiesFreaks and Queers  81Reading Across the Grain  119Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart  143Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition  161Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade  165Notes  173Index  179

Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.

"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)

• Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales  xiPreface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later  xxiA Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?  xxviiThe Mountain  1Part I: PlaceClearcut: Explaining the Distance  17Losing Home  31Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers  51Clear Cut: End of the Line  61Casino: An Epilogue  71Part II. BodiesFreaks and Queers  81Reading Across the Grain  119Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart  143Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition  161Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade  165Notes  173Index  179