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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... slides down our faces like beads of water on the glasses in our hands . In the Lesbian Mother Work- shop , worried about my boy children , I ask if women there have had custody fights . No one is willing to talk about that . One woman ...
... slides down our faces like beads of water on the glasses in our hands . In the Lesbian Mother Work- shop , worried about my boy children , I ask if women there have had custody fights . No one is willing to talk about that . One woman ...
Page 49
... slide between my cool sheets . In the winter I drive across North Carolina to stay with her at the Charlotte Women's Center , where she's being a resident manager . We lie in bed next to the radiator , naked in the steam heat , and she ...
... slide between my cool sheets . In the winter I drive across North Carolina to stay with her at the Charlotte Women's Center , where she's being a resident manager . We lie in bed next to the radiator , naked in the steam heat , and she ...
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... slide projector's corridor of light , the faces of people in your history of transgender . One was a photo- graph of a jazz musician , a handsome white man , square - jawed , look- ing young for his years . He died of a bleeding ulcer ...
... slide projector's corridor of light , the faces of people in your history of transgender . One was a photo- graph of a jazz musician , a handsome white man , square - jawed , look- ing young for his years . He died of a bleeding ulcer ...
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