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Eli Clare

Writer, speaker, activist, teacher, poet.

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.

New Book Coming! Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens

February 10, 2023

Eli is hard at work on a new book, tentatively titled Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens. It examines the making and unmaking of categories and asks the question: who might we become if we unfurl ourselves between and through categories, across divides of human and more-than-human, animate and inanimate?

Head shot of a man with pale skin, short reddish hair and glasses, and an earring in one ear. Behind him is some driftwood.

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.

Book cover: Brilliant Imperfection - Grappling with cure, by Eli Clare. ( in the background is a pile of brown, gray and black stones with one green stone in the middle.)

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.

Eli stands in front of a microphone speaking with one arm raised.

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.