First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation 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.  We interview Eli as the book is republished with a new introduction by Aurora Levins Morales.

Loneliness and Its Opposite documents how two countries generally imagined to be progressive engage with the private realm of desire and sexuality for people with disabilities in very different ways. Denmark and Sweden are both liberal welfare states, but they diverge dramatically in these issues. In Denmark, the erotic lives of people with disabilities are acknowledged and facilitated. In Sweden, they are denied and blocked.

We ask co-author Don Kulick, why these differences exist, and how do both facilitation and hindrance play out in practice?

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