{"id":1468,"date":"2025-09-30T16:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:47:35","slug":"eli-clare-the-past-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/09\/30\/eli-clare-the-past-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Clare, the past, and identity…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eli Clare writes about many things, from gender to the environment. But for now, let\u2019s focus on the gender part, or more specifically, the queer part. A lot of Clare\u2019s writing thus far focuses on the idea of gender and how that influences the world. Something in particular that stood out to me was a single sentence on page 19, which can be read very differently than it seems. There are a few parts of this statement to examine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea that I wish to focus on is simple; no one can fully understand someone else\u2019s experience with the world. It\u2019s hard for two people to experience the same things. As Clare says in this sentence, \u201che has never walked a logging road, listened to the idle roar of a chainsaw, or counted growth rings on an old growth stump\u2026\u201d (Clare, 19), not everyone understands the same parts of the world. This is the primary focus of my reading.<\/span><\/p>\n

While this is about Clare\u2019s past and how his friend can\u2019t understand the exact experiences that he\u2019s had in life, but that there is something shared regardless. I am taking this to be interpreted as this; while another person can\u2019t always fully understand how a person identifies, they can still hold that human empathy and understand that there is a complex backing to an identity. In this particular example, Clare ends the statement saying \u201c…but we share sensibility about environmental destruction.\u201d While this is about the world around them, it could still be about their personal experiences and identities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eli Clare writes about many things, from gender to the environment. But for now, let\u2019s focus on the gender part, or more specifically, the queer part. A lot of Clare\u2019s writing thus far focuses on the idea of gender and how that influences the world. Something in particular that stood out to me was a … Continue reading Eli Clare, the past, and identity…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}