• New Releases
• Forthcoming Titles

• Activism
• African American Studies
• Asian American Studies
• Community Supported Publishing
• Critical Race Theory
• Critical Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Declassified
• Domestic Repression
• Ecology and Green Politics
• Economics
• Feminism
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Gender and Sexuality
• Globalization
• Hardcover
• Health
• International Studies
• Labor and Class Politics
• Latin American Studies
• Latina/Latino Studies
• Media Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Peace and Terror Studies
• Political Science
• Real Story Series
• Reproductive Rights
• Sociology
• South End Press Classics
• Spanish Language Books
• Special Offers
• Support
• Women's Studies

Please note: we are currently experiencing difficulty with our website order form. To order this or any other South End Press title, please email us your telephone number and the title(s) you wish to order at southend@southendpress.org. Thank you for your patience and support as we address this!

“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability. With this critical tenth-anniversary edition, a finalist for the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year Award, the groundbreaking publication secures its position as essential to the history of queer and disability politics, and, through significant new material that boldly interrogates and advances the original text, to its future as well. Clare’s writing on his experiences as a genderqueer activist/writer with cerebral palsy permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation, and yet Exile & Pride is much too great in scope to be defined by even these two issues. Instead it offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the politics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the heart of Clare’s exploration of environmental destruction, white working-class identity, queer community, disabled sexuality, childhood sexual abuse, coalition politics, and his own gender transition is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible for everyone.

Blending prose and theory, personal experience and political debate, anger and compassion, Exile & Pride provides a window into a world where our whole selves in all their complexity can be loved and accepted.


An award-winning poet and essayist, Eli Clare is also the author of The Marrow’s Telling.