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 52
... door - opening , the way that men's mannerly care vanishes when women really need to be helped with a burden . Now , my new affair says , she finds herself with an impulse to door - opening . She doesn't elaborate , but I know she is ...
... door - opening , the way that men's mannerly care vanishes when women really need to be helped with a burden . Now , my new affair says , she finds herself with an impulse to door - opening . She doesn't elaborate , but I know she is ...
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... door opened . Everyone knew about the sec- ond exit in the dance room , double doors onto the street just in case of a raid , which never came while I was there . You lean toward me , tie loosened , shirt sleeves rolled up in the heat ...
... door opened . Everyone knew about the sec- ond exit in the dance room , double doors onto the street just in case of a raid , which never came while I was there . You lean toward me , tie loosened , shirt sleeves rolled up in the heat ...
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... door to work every day , or the men she watched leave for work . The father or the mother or the grandmother at day's end at the kitchen table , weary , hand to head in familiar gesture . The girl in the kitchen door , head tilted and ...
... door to work every day , or the men she watched leave for work . The father or the mother or the grandmother at day's end at the kitchen table , weary , hand to head in familiar gesture . The girl in the kitchen door , head tilted and ...
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