Eli Clare: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[he/him]]<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web |title=Bio |author=Eli Clare |work=eliclare.com |date= |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= http://eliclare.com/background/bio}}</ref><ref name="Barrett">{{Cite web |title=Eli Clare on Examining Disability Justice and Writing Cross-Genre |last=Barrett |first=Kay Ulanday |work=Lambda Literary |date=29 April 2018 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/04/eli-clare/}}</ref>

'''Eli Clare''' is a multi-genre writer, queer ativist, and disability activist.<ref name="cbc">{{Cite web |title=My cerebral palsy isn't a problem to be cured, says writer Eli Clare|author= |work=CBC Radio|date=27 July 2018 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/rethinking-disability-1.4726131/my-cerebral-palsy-isn-t-a-problem-to-be-cured-says-writer-eli-clare-1.4726305 }}</ref><ref name="Vallejos">{{Cite web |title=Eli Clare talks trans pride, disability and the history of the freak show |last=Vallejos |first=Jorge Antonio |work=Xtra Magazine |date=11 August 2010 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://www.dailyxtra.com/eli-clare-talks-trans-pride-disability-and-the-history-of-the-freak-show-9529}}</ref> He holds a Bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and a Master's in Creative Writing.<ref name="Boyd">{{Cite web |title=Five Questions With… Eli Clare |last=Boyd |first=Helen |work=(en)gender |date=22 August 2007 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2007/08/22/five-questions-with-eli-clare/}}</ref>

{{quote|I wanted to be a hermit, to live alone with my stones and trees, neither boy nor a girl.<ref name="Bychowski">{{Cite web |title=Losing Home: the Rape of Transgender Lives in Exile & Pride |author=Bychowski, M.W. |work=thingstransform.com |date=28 February 2016 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= http://www.thingstransform.com/2016/02/losing-home-rape-of-transgender-lives.html}} ''Content note: in-depth discussion of sexual abuse.''</ref>}}

{{quote|Not man, not woman: I don’t have one word answers for my gendered body, just stories.<ref name="Clare2002">{{Cite web |title=Sex, Celebration, and Justice: A Keynote for QD2002 |author=Clare, Eli |work=Queer Disability Conference |date=2002 |access-date=12 May 2020 |url= http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/queer/paper_clare.html}} ''Content note: reclaimed slurs.''</ref>}}