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What if crawling isn’t less than walking—but a way of connecting more deeply with the world?

In this compelling talk, disability writer and activist Eli Clare reflects on the physical, emotional, and political dimensions of moving close to the ground. With poetic insight and sharp analysis, Eli explores the lived experience of crawling and scooting—not as symbols of struggle, but as sources of slowness, intimacy, and power.

This recorded event, part of the Museum’s Year of the Earthshot, invites us to question dominant ideas of movement and ability, and to imagine new ways of being in relationship with our bodies, each other, and the more-than-human world.

🔍 Topics include:

Disability, queerness, and mobility justice
The natural world and environmental intimacy
Ableism, professionalism, and community care
Rethinking “overcoming” in favor of presence and connection

White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in unceded Abenaki territory (also known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of essays, the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. Additionally he has been published in dozens of journals and anthologies.

Eli works as a traveling poet, storyteller, and social justice educator. Since 2008, he has spoken, taught, trained, and consulted (both in-person and remotely) at well over 150 conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada. He currently serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center and is also a Disability Futures Fellow (funded by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queer Disability Conference.

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