Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales  xi

Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later  xxi

A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?  xxvii

The Mountain  1

Part I: Place

Clearcut: Explaining the Distance  17

Losing Home  31

Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers  51

Clear Cut: End of the Line  61

Casino: An Epilogue  71

Part II. Bodies

Freaks and Queers  81

Reading Across the Grain  119

Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart  143

Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition  161

Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade  165

Notes  173

Index  179

Aurora Levins Morales

Dean Spade

"Eli Clare's Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements."
— Rachel Rosenbloom, The Women's Review of Books

"Eli Clare's Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements."
—Rachel Rosenbloom, The Women's Review of Books

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