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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Page 27
... didn't dance . But this lanky , studious woman is the first grown - up woman , a married woman like me , ven- turing into sisterhood at a graduate student's apartment in North Carolina . Not yet the collective house at Laurel Avenue ...
... didn't dance . But this lanky , studious woman is the first grown - up woman , a married woman like me , ven- turing into sisterhood at a graduate student's apartment in North Carolina . Not yet the collective house at Laurel Avenue ...
Page 148
... didn't know what to do . I'm ashamed that I wanted to run . But I'm also still ashamed of the time I shouted in- stead , playing basketball with a butch lover on a Sunday morning . The white man leaned his bulk over the fence to taunt ...
... didn't know what to do . I'm ashamed that I wanted to run . But I'm also still ashamed of the time I shouted in- stead , playing basketball with a butch lover on a Sunday morning . The white man leaned his bulk over the fence to taunt ...
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... didn't look like someone who could pass the " woman - born - woman- only " policy — that she would drive them in . Maybe the women at the gate would be less likely to notice them because as a femme , she looked the way people expected a ...
... didn't look like someone who could pass the " woman - born - woman- only " policy — that she would drive them in . Maybe the women at the gate would be less likely to notice them because as a femme , she looked the way people expected a ...
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