false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175610898m/534753.jpg 534753 3 At long last, an essay on the politics and poetics of queer disability. Eli Clare, a poet with cerebral palsy, movingly describes her attempt to climb Mount Adams--not, she points out, as a "supercrip," like the boy without hands who bats .486 on his Little League team, but just as an impaired person who loves to hike: a story about ableism rather than disability. Avoiding easy answers and journalistic sunshine, she recounts the story of the fight for disabled access, touching on the history of the freak show. She tracks the origins of her own tenacity and self-knowledge to her rural Oregon upbringing and the conflicting personality of her father--who sexually abused her, but also taught her how to frame a house, how to use a chainsaw. "I think of the words <I>crip</I>, <I>queer</I>, <I>freak</I>, <I>redneck</I>," Clare remarks. "None of these are easy words. They mark the jagged edge between self-hatred and pride, the chasm between how the dominant culture views marginalized peoples and how we view ourselves, the razor between finding home, finding our bodies, and living in exile, living on the metaphoric mountain." <I>--Regina Marler</I> 1112188 15 9 1999 Exile and Pride total:119|5:72|4:32|3:12|2:3|1:0| 119 530 205 32 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Apr 06 14:54:23 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 09 18:12:00 -0700 2007 Exile and Pride changed my life and transformed my political outlook at age 23. It provided a critical analysis of ableism that helped me finally understand how my experiences as a queer with cerebral palsy fit into a radical social justice framework. His writing on language, the body, history, cl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 10:59:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:50:39 -0700 2009 Exile and Pride reads like two books in one. The first, a personal unraveling of experiences growing up poor and genderqueer with cerebral palsy in a rural white logging town in Oregon, and the second, a deeper and more theoretical analysis of ableist oppression, cultural constructions of disabilit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 08 11:43:12 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 12:16:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 08:02:32 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 01 14:10:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 22:32:53 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 19:31:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 05 12:49:50 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 12:50:59 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 00:57:32 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:42:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Nov 17 08:46:35 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 08:47:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 06 22:08:07 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 09:13:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue May 12 10:03:31 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:03:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 22 11:42:21 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 08:51:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 17:46:15 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 17:46:33 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Aug 07 15:16:55 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 13:30:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 04:32:40 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 04:37:10 -0800 2008
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