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 Pratt is the author of We Say We Love Each Other, Rebellion, Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, and The Dirt We Ate. |
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Page 68
Her look slid off me at almost the same moment. She was the first person to stand
up and slowly walk across the stage when the performances began. She folded a
dollar bill into the se- quined cleavage of a lip-synching drag queen, stately ...
Her look slid off me at almost the same moment. She was the first person to stand
up and slowly walk across the stage when the performances began. She folded a
dollar bill into the se- quined cleavage of a lip-synching drag queen, stately ...
Page 141
Toward morning I dream: lam in that cold room in bed, in sheer black nightclothes
, sunlight over me. You (yet this is not you) sit in the kitchen with a man, and then
bring him in to look at me. When he leaves, you bring in two more men to look ...
Toward morning I dream: lam in that cold room in bed, in sheer black nightclothes
, sunlight over me. You (yet this is not you) sit in the kitchen with a man, and then
bring him in to look at me. When he leaves, you bring in two more men to look ...
Page 155
The man stands and looks sternly out, but one hand, one forefinger, points back
to the dead men. He is warning: This will happen to you if you take what doesn't
belong to you. Beside him stands a woman old enough to be his mother, a white-
...
The man stands and looks sternly out, but one hand, one forefinger, points back
to the dead men. He is warning: This will happen to you if you take what doesn't
belong to you. Beside him stands a woman old enough to be his mother, a white-
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | S/He |
| Author | Minnie Bruce Pratt |
| Publisher | Alyson Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 155583888X, 9781555838881 |
| Length | 189 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Biography & Autobiography / Women Social Science / Lesbian Studies |
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