[4] Eli Clare coordinated a rape prevention program,[5] and helped organize the first Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002.
[11] That year, his book Brilliant Imperfection won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from Publishing Triangle.
[15][16] He is also on the advisory board for the Disability Project, housed under the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization.
[20][21] Other prominent scholars to theorize on bodymind include Price, Sami Schalk,[22] Gloria Anzaldua,[23] and Alyson Patsavas.
[24] Eli Clare has published two books of creative non-fiction, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999, 2009, 2015) and Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (2017); a collection of poetry, The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion (2007); and contributed to a number of periodicals and anthologies.
[40] Clare's poems and essays have been published in Sojourner: The Women's Forum,[33] Sinister Wisdom,[43] Cultural Activisms: Political Voices, Poetic Voices,[44] Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture,[45] and The Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems.
Exile and Pride discusses Clare's experiences as a "white disabled genderqueer activist/writer" and explores the meaning of "home" through autobiographical narratives while covering the topics of oppression, power, resistance, environmental destruction, capitalism, sexuality, institutional violence, gender, and social justice more generally.
[52] In Brilliant Imperfection, Eli Clare explores the concept of cure, "the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed," [53] while using memoir, history, and critical analysis to discuss the intersectionality of race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender, as well as environmental politics.