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 115
S/HE US cock in my mouth. The next day, panting on the back porch as the
garden parched brown in the sun, I said, "Was that the difference between
lesbian sex and queer sex? Your hand rucked my mouth, but in queer sex my
mouth would ...
S/HE US cock in my mouth. The next day, panting on the back porch as the
garden parched brown in the sun, I said, "Was that the difference between
lesbian sex and queer sex? Your hand rucked my mouth, but in queer sex my
mouth would ...
Page 129
Her hair is grey-blonde, pulled back with a bow; her mouth is drooping with lines.
In clips from old movies, her mouth opens, sings, sobs, chatters. But I see,
fascinated, what held me to her thirty years ago, that mouth melting under
another's ...
Her hair is grey-blonde, pulled back with a bow; her mouth is drooping with lines.
In clips from old movies, her mouth opens, sings, sobs, chatters. But I see,
fascinated, what held me to her thirty years ago, that mouth melting under
another's ...
Page 145
From its mouth the outpouring of pleasure, at its mouth the entrance to desire.
The mouth of the singer, the mouth of the poet, the mouth of the law-giver. The
way of creation, the way of order and chaos, the way of death and beauty. But
another ...
From its mouth the outpouring of pleasure, at its mouth the entrance to desire.
The mouth of the singer, the mouth of the poet, the mouth of the law-giver. The
way of creation, the way of order and chaos, the way of death and beauty. But
another ...
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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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