02413cam a2200265 4500 2798982267 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798349121678 07f701d2-6d7c-4a79-b2d4-831f37fb3a46 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11965709 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Clare, Eli. Brilliant Imperfection [Libby Audiobook] : Grappling with Cure. Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 198MB. HTML:In Brilliant Imperfection, Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds. The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams. At each turn, Clare weaves race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender together, insisting on the nonnegotiable value of body-mind difference. Into this mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure. Ultimately Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time. This audiobook is expressively read by Leanne Woodward with audio engineering by Blake Rook. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-25 20:00:03. Woodward, Leanne. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=07f701d2-6d7c-4a79-b2d4-831f37fb3a46&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)