Eli Clare weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness/transness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and environmental justice.
Eli Clare
Writer, speaker, activist, teacher, poet.
Pre-Order Eli’s Forthcoming Book
Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming will be available from Duke University Press in mid-September. A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Eli’s new book explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking…
Whether keynoting a conference, helping build queer disability community, or facilitating an anti-ableism training, Eli brings a poet’s passion for language and an activist’s passion for social justice to his work.
Eli’s groundbreaking books–Brilliant Imperfection, Exile and Pride, and The Marrow’s Telling–are read by academics and activists alike. They are used frequently in classrooms and passed among friends.
Thought-provoking, compassionate, and challenging, Eli will enliven your classroom, fire up your conference, and educate your organization. Bring him to your community or campus to teach, speak, or train.
Banner image: Eli Clare – Painting by Riva Leher. Photo of Eli at beach by Samuel Lurie. Photo of Eli at the mic by Mengwen Cao.