S/HeThis brave memoir chronicles Pratt’s struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of Southern womanhood and live her life honestly. It chronicles her youth, her marriage, her eventual decision to come out as a lesbian, and her life with transgendered activist and author Leslie Feinberg. Minnie Bruce Prattis the author ofWe Say We Love Each Other,Rebellion,Crime Against Nature,Walking Back Up Depot Street, andThe Dirt We Ate. |
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... clothes too feminine for the university where we teach . We both have our jobs because some of the other women graduate students organized and demanded that teaching assistantships be awarded by sex in proportion to male and female ...
... clothes too feminine for the university where we teach . We both have our jobs because some of the other women graduate students organized and demanded that teaching assistantships be awarded by sex in proportion to male and female ...
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... clothes . " Now I remove the layers . I strip down to the power in the gestures of my hands , the sureness of my step , the way I turn my head and ask a question . I know that clothes only shadow me . This evening I decided to walk out ...
... clothes . " Now I remove the layers . I strip down to the power in the gestures of my hands , the sureness of my step , the way I turn my head and ask a question . I know that clothes only shadow me . This evening I decided to walk out ...
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... clothes . She expected me to want some- thing . I chose a white cotton dress shirt , a thin black - and - red striped tie , and his summer panama hat . Later that year , when I did poetry readings in the South , I wore his clothes ...
... clothes . She expected me to want some- thing . I chose a white cotton dress shirt , a thin black - and - red striped tie , and his summer panama hat . Later that year , when I did poetry readings in the South , I wore his clothes ...
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