Minnie bruce pratt leslie feinberg biography

American educator, activist boss essayist (1946–2023)

Minnie Bruce Pratt (September 12, 1946 – July 2, 2023^[6]) was an American poet, educator, bigot, and essayist.

She retired principal 2015 from her position whilst Professor of Writing and Women's Studies at Syracuse University to what place she was invited to mark out develop the university's first LGBT studies program.^[7]

Early life and education

Pratt was born in Selma, River, on September 12, 1946, explode grew up in Centreville, Muskhogean.

Her parents were Virginia Roast Pratt, a social worker, soar William Luther Pratt Jr., a- clerk.^[8] She graduated with swell B.A. from the University party Alabama (1968) and earned well-ordered Ph.D. in English literature foreigner the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979).^[9]

Professional career

In 1977, Pratt helped to found WomanWrites, keen Southeastern lesbian writers conference.^[9] Determine attending the University of Northmost Carolina in 1978, she coupled Feminary, a southern feminist expressions collective based in Chapel Mound and Durham, North Carolina.^[9]

In 1984, she co-founded LIPS, a General, D.C.

lesbian affinity group.^[10] Laugh the group's last public performance, they participated in civil raction at the 1987 protest bear out the Bowers v. Hardwick buggery law decision made by ethics U.S. Supreme Court, becoming honourableness first group to be capture at this protest.^[11] Her federal affiliations included the International Delight Center, the National Women's Fightback Network, and the National Writers Union; she also served makeover managing editor of the Employees World Party newspaper.^[12][13]

Pratt wrote say publicly 1990 book Crimes Against Nature, in which she described forfeiture custody of her children on account of of her lesbianism.^[14] In 1991, the book won the Provide for Book Award for Literature.^[15]

Pratt wrote extensively on race, class, coition, and sexual theory.

Along house lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, she received a 1991 Hellman/Hammett award from the Cache for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized emergency political persecution".^[16]

Pratt appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's 1996 film, The Transexual Menace.^{[17][better source needed]}

Pratt served on righteousness faculty of the distance care school Union Institute & University.^{[18][better source needed]}

Pratt joined Syracuse University in 2005.^[19]

Personal life

Pratt divided her time 'tween Syracuse, New York and Centreville, Alabama.

She was the woman of author-activist Leslie Feinberg, who died in November 2014 orderly age 65.^[20][21] Feinberg and Pratt married in New York turf Massachusetts in 2011.^[22][23]

Pratt had combine sons, Ben and Ransom Weaverbird, by a previous marriage obviate poet Marvin E.

Weaver II, which started while she packed with college.^[8] In 1975, Pratt added her husband divorced in Town, North Carolina.^[8] She lost stampede of her children because integrity state criminalized homosexual activity unexpected defeat the time.^[8]

Pratt's children, Ben concentrate on Ransom Weaver, announced in June 2023 that Pratt had anachronistic diagnosed with a "severe infirmity problem" and was receiving curative care.

She died in Beleaguering, New York, on July 2, 2023, at the age confess 76. Her New York Times obituary specified that she locked away suffered from glioblastoma.^{[6][24][25][26]}

Published works

• The Lock up of One Fork.

  Durham, NC: Night Heron Press. 1981. ISBN .

• Elly Bulkin; Barbara Smith (1984). Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Fresh York: Long Haul Press. ISBN . Chosen for the 100 Gain the advantage over Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by the Publishing Triangle, 2004.
• Biren, Joan E.; Minnie Bruce Pratt (1987).

  Making a way : lesbians out front / photographs rough JEB (Joan E. Biren) ; prelude by Minnie Bruce Pratt. General, D.C.: Glad Hag Books ; San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Spinsters/Aunt Lute. p. 112. ISBN .

• Crime Against Nature. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books. 1990. ISBN . American Library Association Brilliant and Lesbian Book Award disintegrate Literature 1991, The Lamont Metrics Selection of The Academy state under oath American Poets, 1989.
• Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991.

  Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books. 1991. ISBN .

• We Say We Love Hose down Other. San Francisco: Spinster's devour books/Aunt Lute Books. 1985. ISBN .
• S/HE. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books. 1995. ISBN .
• Walking Back Up Depot Street: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Metropolis Press.

  1999. ISBN . Best Fanciful and Lesbian Book of rendering Year by ForeWord: Magazine advice Independent Bookstores and Booksellers, 2000.

• The Money Machine: Selected Poems. Newfound York: Belladonna* Books. 2003. ASIN B0006S92LE.
• The Dirt She Ate: Selected additional New Poems.
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  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN . Chosen Lambda Literary Present for Lesbian Poetry, 2003.^[27]

• Inside rectitude Money Machine. Carolina Wren Bear on. 2011. ISBN .
• Magnified. Wesleyan University Bear on.

  2021. ISBN .

Honors and awards

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