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 138
... tell me . Why give me your fears about what some man could do to me as a woman ? I say , " I don't think I'll come here alone . Too many cars passing , always someone watching to see if this time he can get away with it . " I don't tell ...
... tell me . Why give me your fears about what some man could do to me as a woman ? I say , " I don't think I'll come here alone . Too many cars passing , always someone watching to see if this time he can get away with it . " I don't tell ...
Page 168
... tell you something of what I am writing now , vignettes of daily life , the delicate twining of forbidden words , the way sex and gender and sexuality spread their tendrils through our lives and wrench us open , like the kudzu vine that ...
... tell you something of what I am writing now , vignettes of daily life , the delicate twining of forbidden words , the way sex and gender and sexuality spread their tendrils through our lives and wrench us open , like the kudzu vine that ...
Page 175
... tell them about my masculine first girlfriend when I was five , my femi- nine first husband when I was twenty . I tell of standing as a girl at doors marked White and Colored , and not knowing what that meant until long after . The long ...
... tell them about my masculine first girlfriend when I was five , my femi- nine first husband when I was twenty . I tell of standing as a girl at doors marked White and Colored , and not knowing what that meant until long after . The long ...
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