That year, his book Brilliant Imperfection won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from Publishing Triangle. Schlegel Award for visionary LGBTQ leadership from American University. Ĭlare has received a number of 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. His work is associated with the second wave of the disability rights movement. Career Įli Clare coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002. degree in creative writing from Goddard College in 1993. He attended Reed College before transferring to Mills College where he received a degree in women's studies in 1985. He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999, 2009, 2015), Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017) a collection of poetry, The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion (2007) and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies.Ĭlare was born in Coos Bay in 1963 and grew up in Port Orford, Oregon. Clare was one of the first scholars to popularize the bodymind concept. His work focuses on queer, transgender, and disability issues. Eli Clare (born 1963) is an American writer, activist, educator, and speaker.
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