#clare >>> eli

[neos-schlond-poofa]

CLARE DIANA EDWARDS NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG AND I WILL STAND BY THAT STATEMENT.

she’s quite literally just a girl.

[transastronautistic]

When people stumble over their pronouns, stammer, blush, or apologize in embarrassment, I often think of Riki Anne Wilchins' description of her friend Holly Boswell: "Holly is a delicate Southern belle of long acquaintance ....S/he has tender features, long, wavy blonde hair, a soft Carolina accent, a delicate feminine bosom, and no interest in surgery. Holly lives as an open transgendered mother of two in Asheville, North Carolina. Her comforting advice to confused citizens struggling with whether to use Sir or Madam is, 'Don't give it a second thought. You don't have a pronoun yet for me.’” ... ...[T]o answer the homophobes becomes easy, those folks who want to dehumanize, erase, make invisible the lives of butch dykes and nellie fags. We shrug. We laugh. We tell them: your definitions of woman and man suck. We tell them: your binary stinks. We say: here we are in all our glory — male, female, intersex, trans, butch, nellie, studly, femme, king, androgynous, queen, some of us carving out new ways of being women, others of us new ways of being men, and still others new ways of being something else entirely. You don't have pronouns yet for us.

- Eli Clare in Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation (1999)

[degrassi-daily]

top 5 dynamics per character: → eli goldsworthy

[nostalgicbytch]

BEST ad for a tv show, hands down. If you can hear this gif let’s be friends

[keyh0use]

the fact that this was my first ship speaks volumes, like of course I seek out the most problematic, toxic, aggressive person in a show and pair them with a dramatic, whiny, obnoxious brat. The cycle repeats itself again and again

[sparksflylaces]

In honor of me changing my profile pic and header again im posting some degrassi moodboards i made a while ago :)

[saveme-storybrooke-potc]

Eclare Headcanons

*please have some grace, I don't usually do headcanons for non-fairytale characters, (like I'm pretty sure I don't have any for Clois)*

after school, they bought an apartment in New York

Eli and Clare both still work on writing stories together (with a lot of characters inspired by their peers and plots on real-life experiences)

Whenever Eli is writing a script/story for one of his own projects, he always goes to Clare for any proof-reading/editing (in his opinion she usually makes his stories a whole lot better)

They have a shelf with their high school memories, and that one picture frame of their unborn child (but after awhile it got too hard for Clare so they put it in a little blue shoebox and left it on the shelf again)

- to add to that sometimes they reflect on that situation and think about what their life would be like had they not lost their child and realise that they wouldn't have had gotten to where they are now

- sometimes they do talk about having children but not anytime soon

they got engaged after living together for two years and are planning to have a fall wedding

Clare's older sister Darcy finally met Eli at a Christmas party the two were hosting

[degrassi-fandom-confessions]

eli & clare were wasted being forced together when eli could've been kidsing boys *cough* ADAM *cough*

[nikkiruncks]

Eli & Clare - Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

Very first Eclare edit! So proud of it!

[colins-bridgerton]

clare edwards meme:

10 tropes

[thenervebible]

FEMINIST QUEER CRIP: Bodies of Nature by Alison Kafer

[degrassi-daily]

top 5 dynamics per character: → clare edwards

[princessprefers]

Degrassi 10x43

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Degrassi

Sample Size: 619 stories

Source: AO3

[everybodyloveshippos]

55 - Eli Vanto! 🤠

55- Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

Love is not some kind of victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

THIS WAS LITERALLY THE MOST HEARTBREAKING SONG U COULD HAVE PICKED FOR ELI BY ACCIDENT anyways here's him being alone and sad bcus he was in a years long situationship who the other half of has vanished from the known galaxy or whatever

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare

goodreads

First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established Eli Clare as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability. With this critical tenth-anniversary edition, the groundbreaking publication secures its position as essential to the history of queer and disability politics, and, through significant new material that boldly interrogates and advances the original text, to its future as well. Clare’s writing on his experiences as a genderqueer activist/writer with cerebral palsy permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation, and yet Exile & Pride is much too great in scope to be defined by even these two issues. Instead it offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the politics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the heart of Clare’s exploration of environmental destruction, white working-class identity, queer community, disabled sexuality, childhood sexual abuse, coalition politics, and his own gender transition is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible for everyone.

Blending prose and theory, personal experience and political debate, anger and compassion, Exile & Pride provides a window into a world where our whole selves in all their complexity can be loved and accepted.

Mod opinion: I‘d heard of this book before, but I hadn‘t really read the description before and now that I have I‘m really, really excited to read it someday!