Digital Transgender Archive
Interview with Eli Clare
Eli Clare is a genderqueer disability advocate, writer and poet. In this oral history, Clare discusses how language gets re-claimed, taken up, or not; tensions in lesbian community around trans masculinity; passing; and the contradictions he felt medically transitioning and while simultaneously resisting pathologizing his body as needing a “cure.” According to Clare, transitioning “made life plentiful, made life possible in a way of expressing myself as whole.”
Item Actions
- Identifier
- p5547r588
- Collection
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Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
- Institution
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
- Creator(s)
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Jenkins, Andrea
Clare, Eli
- Publisher
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University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
- Date Created
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Mar. 1, 2016
- Genre
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Oral Histories
Transcriptions
- Subject(s)
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Americans with Disabilities Act
Compton's Cafeteria Riots
Eli Clare
Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues
- Places
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Oregon
Vermont
- Topic(s)
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Bullying
Cerebral palsy
Clinical medicine
Diagnosis
Disability studies
Employment
Gay community
Gender minorities
Gender realignment surgery
Lesbian community
LGBTQ+ relationships
Masculinities
Medical interventions
Passing (Gender)
People with disabilities
Public buildings--Restrooms
Rural areas
Small cities
Stonewall riots
Surgery
Working class
Writers
- Resource Type
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Moving image
Text
- Language
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English
- Related URL
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https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project&q=transgender
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