Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, And Dreaming -- Eli Clare In Conversation With Suzanne Pharr

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Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming — Eli Clare in Conversation with Suzanne Pharr

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Charis welcomes Eli Clare in conversation with Suzanne Pharr for a discussion of Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming, a queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams that explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming.

Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family's legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors--earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and non-sentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.