Eli Clare
Eli Clare is a writer, speaker, activist, and teacher who addresses disability, gender, race, class, and sexuality in his work. His work focuses on queer, transgender, and disability issues.[1][2] He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999, 2009, 2015); a collection of poetry, The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion (2007); and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies. Clare is one of the first scholars to popularize the bodymind concept.
Early life and education
Clare grew up in Port Orford, Oregon.[3] He attended Reed College before transferring to Mills College where he received a degree in women's studies in 1985.[4] Clare earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College in 1993.[4]
Career
Eli Clare has published numerous essays, poems, and books. Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. He has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program,[5] and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002.[6][7]
Eli Clare has received many awards for his work, including the Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and LGBT Artist of the Year from Michigan Pride.[8]
In 2018, Clare received the Richard L. Schlegel Award for visionary LGBTQ leadership from American University.[9] That year, his book Brilliant Imperfection won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from Publishing Triangle.[10]
In 2019, he was awarded a Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[11][12]
Clare is a visiting scholar at the University at Buffalo's Center for Diversity Innovation for the 2020-2021 academic year.[13][14]. He is also on the advisory board for the Disability Project, housed under the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization.[15]
Body-mind
Eli Clare is one of the first scholars to popularize the concept of bodymind. Along with Margaret Price, Clare proposed that the bodymind expresses the interrelatedness of mental and physical processes. Clare uses bodymind in his work Brilliant Imperfection as a way to resist common Western assumptions that the body and mind are separate entities, or that the mind is “superior” to the body.[16][17]
Other prominent scholars to discuss bodymind include Margaret Price, Sami Schalk, Alyson Patsavas, and Alison Kafer.
Publications
Eli Clare has published three books: Brilliant Imperfection,The Marrow’s Telling, and Exile and Pride, discussed in more detail below.
Clare’s scholarly work has been published in Public Culture, [18]GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies,[19] Seattle Journal for Social Justice,[20] Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, [21][22] Tikkun,[23] and Disability Studies Quarterly[24].
Clare has also submitted chapters to the following anthologies: Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, [25] the fourth edition of the The Disability Studies Reader,[26] Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory,[27] Material Ecocriticism,[28] The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy,[29] Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out,[30] Queerly Classed,[31] Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities,[32] and Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories.[33]
Furthermore, Clare’s poems and essays have been published in Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, Sinister Wisdom, The Disability Rag, Hanging Loose, and The Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems.
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation is an autobiographical collection of essays first published by South End Press in 1999 and 2009 and was republished in 2015 by Duke University Press.[34] The 2015 edition includes a foreword by Aurora Levins Morales and an afterword by Dean Spade. Exile and Pride's expanded edition, published in 2009, was a finalist for Foreword's 2009 INDIES Book of the Year Award.[35].
Exile and Pride discusses Clare's experiences as a "white disabled genderqueer activist/writer" [36] and explores the meaning of "home" through autobiographical narratives while covering the topics of oppression, power, resistance, environmental destruction, capitalism, sexuality, institutional violence, gender, and social justice more generally.[37]
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories is a collection of personal stories from gay men with disabilities edited by Bob Guter and John R. Killacky. To this anthology, Eli Clare submitted "Gawking, Gaping, Staring."[38]
The book won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for the Anthologies/Non-fiction category.[38]
The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion
The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion is a collection of poetry published by Homofactus Press in 2007, though many of the poems had been previously published. The collection was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2007.[39]
In this work, Eli Clare "explores how bodies carry history and identity over time".[40] The poems include contradiction and repetition as they discuss the themes of disability, race, gender, violence, and sexuality.[41]
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure was published by Duke University Press in 2017. In 2018, Brilliant Imperfection won the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.[42]
In Brilliant Imperfection, Eli Clare explores the concept of cure, "the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed," [43][44] while using memoir, history, and critical analysis to discuss the intersectionality of race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender, as well as environmental politics. Clare is one of the first scholars to popularize the concept of bodymind, which he uses in Brilliant Imperfection as a way to resist common Western assumptions that the body and mind are separate entities or that the mind is “superior” to the body.
Personal life
Eli Clare has cerebral palsy and identifies as genderqueer and as a trans man. [45] He currently lives near Lake Champlain in Vermont.[46][47]
References
- ↑ "Gawking, gaping, staring". Iowa Now. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ "Interview with Eli Clare - Issue 5". The Deaf Poets Society. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ Clare, Eli (2015-07-15). Exile and Pride. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822374879. ISBN 978-0-8223-7487-9. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brueggemann, Brenda Jo (2012-08-02). Arts and Humanities. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4833-0592-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Anderson-Minshall, Jacob (2021-01-29). "Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow". Advocate. Retrieved 2021-02-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Eli Clare on Disability, Illness and Environmental and Social Justice". www2.hws.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ "Conference Papers". Queer Disability Conference. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ St. Cyr, Laura. "Lunch & Learn with Eli Clare - Moving Beyond Pity & Inspiration: Disability as Social Justice Issue - Jan 8". Today at Elon. Elon University. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Zurn, Perry; Ferguson, Matt; Masson, Stephen; Henzen, Hana; Pruski, Scout; Nellis, Leslie; Bethel, Erica. "The AU Trans Experience: Then and Now". American University Library. American University. Retrieved 20 February 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction". The Publishing Triangle. The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ "Ford, Mellon Award $1 Million to Disability Futures Fellowships". AMERICAN THEATRE. 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2021-02-11. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ford and Mellon Foundations Announce Fund For Disabled Artists". Art Insider. 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ "Eli Clare". University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation. Retrieved 2021-02-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Diversity scholars announced". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ "Programs: Disability Project". Transgender Law Center. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Clare, Eli (February 2017). Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-6287-6. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Search this book on
- ↑ Fordham News. "Distinguished Lecture on Disability Examines 'Body-Mind' and Nature". Fordham University. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Clare, Eli (Fall 2001). "Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness". Public Culture. 13 (3): 359–365. doi:10.1215/08992363-13-3-359. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Clare, Eli (2003). "Gawking, Gaping, Staring". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 9 (1–2): 257–261. doi:10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-257. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Clare, Eli (May 2010). "Resisting Shame: Making Our Bodies Home". Seattle Journal of Social Justice. 8 (2): 455–465. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ {{cite journal |last1=Clare |first1=Eli |title=Yearning toward Carrie Buck |journal=Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies |date=2014 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=169-189 |doi=10.1353/aim.1995.0006 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/558371/summary
- ↑ Clare, Eli (January 2014). "Comment from the Field: Yearning toward Carrie Buck". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 8 (3): 335–344. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2014.26.
- ↑ Clare, Eli (2014). "Love: A Letter to Ashley's Father". Tikkun. 29 (4): 35–36. doi:10.1215/08879982-2810098. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Clare, Eli (2017). "The Ferocious Need for Liberation". Disability Studies Quarterly. 37 (3). doi:10.18061/dsq.v37i3.5972. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Hobbs, Margaret; Rice, Carla (2018). Gender and women's studies : Critical terrain (Second ed.). Toronto: Critical Edition. ISBN 978-0889615915. Search this book on
- ↑ Davis, Lennard J. (2013). The disability studies reader (PDF) (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-63051-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Ray, Sarah Jaquette; Sibara, Jay (2017). Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. University of Nebraska Press. Search this book on
- ↑ Iovino, Serenella; Opperman, Serpil (2014). Material ecocriticism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253013989. Search this book on
- ↑ Martin Alcoff, Linda; Feder Kittay, Eva (2007). The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. doi:10.1002/9780470696132. ISBN 9780631224273. Search this book on
- ↑ Fries, Kenny (1997). Staring back : the disability experience from the inside out. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Plume. ISBN 9780452279131. Search this book on
- ↑ Raffo, Susan (1997). Queerly classed. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896085619. Search this book on
- ↑ Mintz, Susannah B. (2007). Unruly bodies : life writing by women with disabilities. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolia Press. ISBN 9780807877630. Search this book on
- ↑ Guter, Bob; Killacky, John R (2004). Queer crips: disabled gay men and their stories. New York: Harrington Park Press. Search this book on
- ↑ "Eli Clare on Examining Disability Justice and Writing Cross-Genre". Lambda Literary. 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ ""Exile and Pride, Classics Edition" is a 2009 Foreword INDIES Finalist". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ↑ "Exile and Pride | Eli Clare". Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ↑ "Exile and Pride". Duke University Press. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 38.0 38.1 Guter, Bob; Killacky, John R (2004). Queer crips: disabled gay men and their stories. New York: Harrington Park Press. ISBN 978-1-56023-456-2. OCLC 51117771. Search this book on
- ↑ "Previous Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Clare, Eli. "The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion". Eli Clare. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Vallejos, Jorge Antonio (2010-08-11). "Eli Clare talks trans pride, disability and the history of the freak show". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ "» Brilliant Imperfection | Eli Clare". Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ↑ Smith, Sue (2017-09-26). "Book Review: Brilliant Imperfection". The BMJ. Retrieved 2021-02-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Listen: Author Eli Clare on Cure, Disability, Queerness, and Natural Worlds". Swarthmore College. 2016-11-14. Retrieved 2021-02-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Eli Clare, "Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness"". Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ "Eli Clare, Author at Syndicate". Syndicate. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
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