Community Book Discussions: Exile & Pride
Thursday, April 27, 2017 7:00 PM
Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:00 PM
Come join a community book
discussion of Exile and Pride, a memoir by Eli Clare on April 27th.
First published in 1999, the
groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of
disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a
white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the
leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and
permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.
With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare
deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of
self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking
to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies,
identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for
understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression,
power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental
destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and
the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly
accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries
open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can
be realized, loved, and embraced.
Coffee will be provided by Coffee House Without Limits, where
there will be an after-party to continue the discussion.
The first 20 people to sign up
for each book talk get a free copy of the book! Contact Ariel@bradburysullivancenter.org to sign
up and reserve your copy!
Sponsored by: Lehigh University
Pride Center, The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Lehigh
University, The Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative at Lehigh University,
& Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center.
Location
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
Category
Talks & Discussions