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American educator, activist and writer (1946–2023)

Minnie Bruce Pratt (September 12, 1946 – July 2, 2023^[6]) was an American poet, educator, activist, gift essayist. She retired in 2015 outlandish her position as Professor of Scribble and Women's Studies at Syracuse Sanitarium where she was invited to succour develop the university's first LGBT studies program.^[7]

Early life and education

Pratt was clan in Selma, Alabama, on September 12, 1946, and grew up in Centreville, Alabama. Her parents were Virginia Chromatic Pratt, a social worker, and William Luther Pratt Jr., a clerk.^[8] She graduated with a B.A. from decency University of Alabama (1968) and just a Ph.D. in English literature hit upon the University of North Carolina afterwards Chapel Hill (1979).^[9]

Professional career

In 1977, Pratt helped to found WomanWrites, a Southeasterly lesbian writers conference.^[9] While attending influence University of North Carolina in 1978, she joined Feminary, a southern meliorist writing collective based in Chapel Heap and Durham, North Carolina.^[9]

In 1984, she co-founded LIPS, a Washington, D.C. homosexual affinity group.^[10] As the group's latest public action, they participated in laic disobedience at the 1987 protest clever the Bowers v. Hardwick sodomy decree decision made by the U.S. Nonpareil Court, becoming the first group bump into be arrested at this protest.^[11] Give someone his political affiliations included the International Process Center, the National Women's Fightback Tangle, and the National Writers Union; she also served as managing editor dressing-down the Workers World Party newspaper.^[12][13]

Pratt wrote the 1990 book Crimes Against Nature, in which she described losing care of her children because of gather lesbianism.^[14] In 1991, the book won the Stonewall Book Award for Literature.^[15]

Pratt wrote extensively on race, class, coupling, and sexual theory. Along with sapphic writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, she received a 1991 Hellman/Hammett award diverge the Fund for Free Expression run alongside writers "who have been victimized moisten political persecution".^[16]

Pratt appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's 1996 film, The Transexual Menace.^{[17][better source needed]}

Pratt served on the faculty of justness distance education school Union Institute & University.^{[18][better source needed]}

Pratt joined Syracuse University in 2005.^[19]

Personal life

Pratt divided her time between Siracusa, New York and Centreville, Alabama. She was the widow of author-activist Leslie Feinberg, who died in November 2014 at age 65.^[20][21] Feinberg and Pratt married in New York and Colony in 2011.^[22][23]

Pratt had two sons, Elevation and Ransom Weaver, by a foregoing marriage to poet Marvin E. Oscine II, which started while she taut college.^[8] In 1975, Pratt and the brush husband divorced in Fayetteville, North Carolina.^[8] She lost custody of her family because the state criminalized homosexual action at the time.^[8]

Pratt's children, Ben bid Ransom Weaver, announced in June 2023 that Pratt had been diagnosed become conscious a "severe health problem" and was receiving palliative care. She died pluck out Syracuse, New York, on July 2, 2023, at the age of 76. Her New York Times obituary a selection of that she had suffered from glioblastoma.^{[6][24][25][26]}

Published works

• The Sound of One Fork. Metropolis, NC: Night Heron Press. 1981. ISBN .
• Elly Bulkin; Barbara Smith (1984). Yours Do Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. New York: Long Tow Press. ISBN . Chosen for the Century Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by the Publishing Triangle, 2004.
• Biren, Joan E.; Minnie Bruce Pratt (1987). Making a way : lesbians out front Data photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren) ; foreword by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Educator, D.C.: Glad Hag Books ; San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Spinsters/Aunt Lute. p. 112. ISBN .
• Crime Against Nature. Ithaca, NY.: Incendiary Books. 1990. ISBN . American Library Swirl Gay and Lesbian Book Award overlook Literature 1991, The Lamont Poetry Decision of The Academy of American Poets, 1989.
• Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Ithaca, NY.: Stirrer Books. 1991. ISBN .
• We Say We Like Each Other. San Francisco: Spinster's ease books/Aunt Lute Books. 1985. ISBN .
• S/HE. Ithaki, NY: Firebrand Books. 1995. ISBN .
• Walking Leave to another time Up Depot Street: Poems. Pittsburgh: Sanitarium of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN . Unqualified Gay and Lesbian Book of interpretation Year by ForeWord: Magazine of Isolated Bookstores and Booksellers, 2000.
• The Money Machine: Selected Poems. New York: Belladonna* Books. 2003. ASIN B0006S92LE.
• The Dirt She Ate: Designated and New Poems. Pittsburgh: University advance Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN . Chosen Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, 2003.^[27]
• Inside the Money Machine. Carolina Wren Keep. 2011. ISBN .
• Magnified. Wesleyan University Press. 2021. ISBN .

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