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Lauren Munro

In today's show, I am joined by Lauren Munro, a mad scholar and fat activist, a limited-term faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. We talk about her work with the Empowerment Council at CAMH where, alongside Lucy Costa, they teach psyc…

Eli Clare – Grappling with Cure

White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare’s new book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, questions the typical hostility of the disability movement toward the mythology of The Cure. He explores his rage at the many ways the ‘search for the cure’ has ostracized and limited people with …

“Exile and Pride” – “Loneliness and its Opposite”

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare’s revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leadin…

2 Angels 2 America: A Serious Podcast for Serious People

Hey gang, it’s goth dyke Trixie and Katya here to bring you a VERY overdue episode about illness and disability in Part 2 of our Angels in America episode! We’ve got a lot of reading this week, from revisiting Angels in America to Susan Sontag to Eli Clare. We’re exploring metaphors of illness and …

Valuations of Life: Eugenics, Disability, and Capitalism

It’s obvious that some lives are valued over others, and some commodities are valued more than life. How have these determinations been made? In this episode, we talk about how medical care prioritizes some patients over others—even to the extent of taking some people’s personal ventilators to give…

41. Exile and Pride.

Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race … everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this ent…

40. The Boys in the Band.

HAROLD. (Coolly.) Are you now? Are you warning me? Me? I’m Harold. I’m the one person you don’t warn, Michael. Because you and I are a match. And we tread very softly with each other because we both play each other’s game too well. Oh, I know this game you’re playing. I know it very well. And I p…

Exile and Pride with Seeley Quest and Eli Clare

Exile is not a choice that anyone wants to make. It’s something we come to through necessity. Today we meet seeley quest and we’re talking about the book that saved hir life: Exile and Pride by Eli Clare. And Eli joins us for the conversation! Seeley Quest (sie/hir) is a trans disabled environmenta…

“Only Ugly Guys” at Gremlin Theatre and Eli Clare’s Unfurl

“Only Ugly Guys” runs at Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul from Sept 11th-27th. Playwright Kurt Engh joins us to discuss! For tickets and more info: https://events.humanitix.com/only-ugly-guys. Plus, Eli Clare’s new book Unfurl is out September 16th and Eli joins us to talk about this queer disabled love…

Eli Clare

Send us a message Dean chats with his friend, the brilliant writer and activist Eli Clare, about his newest book, Unfurl, which Eli describes as a queer disabled love song. Dean and Eli talk about grief and what it means to live with a broken heart, dealing with feelings of betrayal and disappointm…