Join us at the Queer Community Book Club (QCBC), where we celebrate the rich diversity and vibrant voices within queer literature. Through carefully selected books authored by individuals who proudly identify within the queer communities, QCBC provides a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of ourselves and each other in an inclusive, queer-centric environment.
This free program, proudly co-sponsored by Queery and The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center, is dedicated to fostering a sense of belonging and connection. Whether you are looking to explore new perspectives, engage in meaningful discussions, or simply enjoy the camaraderie of fellow book lovers, QCBC is the perfect space to nurture your literary and communal spirit.
QCBC meets every Saturday from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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BOOK: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
AUTHOR: Eli Clare
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride 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 leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.
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LOCATION: Virtual Meeting - please register to receive the Zoom link
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LOFT Social Groups are open groups that welcome everyone ages 18 and over. Groups are led by members of the LGBTQ+ and allied communities.
Donations are welcome. Suggested donation is $5; more if you can, less if you can't. Fees related to activities are the responsibility of participants.
