February 08, 2021

41. Exile and Pride.

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Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains

against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race …

everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any

aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this entire

maze. This I know, and yet the question remains: where to start?

We start off the year (a bit late) by reading a book that pushes us in some

new directions. Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride is half memoir, half analysis

of the intersections of queerness, disability, gender, race, and the

environment. Chris and Suzanne explore its many devotions: to lists, to

intersectionality, and especially to the desire to never let things be simple,

but always striving to consider the world in its full complexity.

Show Notes.

Eli Clare: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and

Liberation.

[Bookshop.]

Other books by Eli Clare: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with

Cure; The Marrow’s Telling: Words in

Motion.

Thomas Browne: Religio Medici.

An in-depth interview with Clare from

2009.

And a recently online talk given by

Clare.

Next: Laxdæla Saga.

[Bookshop.]

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February 08, 2021

41. Exile and Pride.

Listen Later

51 minutes

Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains

against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race …

everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any

aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this entire

maze. This I know, and yet the question remains: where to start?

We start off the year (a bit late) by reading a book that pushes us in some

new directions. Eli Clare’s Exile and Pride is half memoir, half analysis

of the intersections of queerness, disability, gender, race, and the

environment. Chris and Suzanne explore its many devotions: to lists, to

intersectionality, and especially to the desire to never let things be simple,

but always striving to consider the world in its full complexity.

Show Notes.

Eli Clare: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and

Liberation.

[Bookshop.]

Other books by Eli Clare: Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with

Cure; The Marrow’s Telling: Words in

Motion.

Thomas Browne: Religio Medici.

An in-depth interview with Clare from

2009.

And a recently online talk given by

Clare.

Next: Laxdæla Saga.

[Bookshop.]

Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.

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