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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... movie alone for the first time in my life , a cold air- conditioned afternoon watching a man's story about a woman who mutilates her genitals . I feel the blood on my hands as she scrapes her insides out . I wish I were running away in ...
... movie alone for the first time in my life , a cold air- conditioned afternoon watching a man's story about a woman who mutilates her genitals . I feel the blood on my hands as she scrapes her insides out . I wish I were running away in ...
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... movie star . I gloat over the pictures , and then pause to clear a few more pieces of debris from my desk . I sift through the mess of papers , turn- ing up another photograph , my father and mother soon after they were married . She ...
... movie star . I gloat over the pictures , and then pause to clear a few more pieces of debris from my desk . I sift through the mess of papers , turn- ing up another photograph , my father and mother soon after they were married . She ...
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... movie, when Gone With the Wind comes to my Alabama town every four years. I am crying because on the screen a ... movie reverses us, mirror opposites: Black woman, white girl, white girl, Black woman — "Mammy," Scarlett, Melanie, "Prissy ...
... movie, when Gone With the Wind comes to my Alabama town every four years. I am crying because on the screen a ... movie reverses us, mirror opposites: Black woman, white girl, white girl, Black woman — "Mammy," Scarlett, Melanie, "Prissy ...
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