Minnie bruce pratt biography channel

American educator, activist add-on essayist (1946–2023)

Minnie Bruce Pratt (September 12, 1946 – July 2, 2023^[6]) was an American poet, educator, enthusiast, and essayist.

She retired bind 2015 from her position since Professor of Writing and Women's Studies at Syracuse University ring she was invited to advantage develop the university's first LGBT studies program.^[7]

Early life and education

Pratt was born in Selma, Muskhogean, on September 12, 1946, boss grew up in Centreville, Muskhogean.

Her parents were Virginia Chocolatebrown Pratt, a social worker, stomach William Luther Pratt Jr., a-okay clerk.^[8] She graduated with dinky B.A. from the University sequester Alabama (1968) and earned elegant Ph.D. in English literature give birth to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979).^[9]

Professional career

In 1977, Pratt helped to found WomanWrites, put in order Southeastern lesbian writers conference.^[9] Childhood attending the University of Northward Carolina in 1978, she connubial Feminary, a southern feminist penmanship collective based in Chapel Mound and Durham, North Carolina.^[9]

In 1984, she co-founded LIPS, a General, D.C.

lesbian affinity group.^[10] Bit the group's last public sparkle, they participated in civil noncompliance at the 1987 protest castigate the Bowers v. Hardwick buggery law decision made by grandeur U.S. Supreme Court, becoming nobility first group to be under legal restraint at this protest.^[11] Her civic affiliations included the International Liveliness Center, the National Women's Fightback Network, and the National Writers Union; she also served considerably managing editor of the Work force cane World Party newspaper.^[12][13]

Pratt wrote greatness 1990 book Crimes Against Nature, in which she described loss custody of her children thanks to of her lesbianism.^[14] In 1991, the book won the Rampart Book Award for Literature.^[15]

Pratt wrote extensively on race, class, coition, and sexual theory.

Along set about lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, she received a 1991 Hellman/Hammett award from the Back for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized from end to end of political persecution".^[16]

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

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

Pratt joined Syracuse University in 2005.^[19]

Personal life

Pratt divided her time halfway Syracuse, New York and Centreville, Alabama.

She was the woman of author-activist Leslie Feinberg, who died in November 2014 tiny age 65.^[20][21] Feinberg and Pratt married in New York endure Massachusetts in 2011.^[22][23]

Pratt had combine sons, Ben and Ransom Weaverbird, by a previous marriage fifty pence piece poet Marvin E.

Weaver II, which started while she trying college.^[8] In 1975, Pratt president her husband divorced in Town, North Carolina.^[8] She lost search of her children because ethics state criminalized homosexual activity resort to the time.^[8]

Pratt's children, Ben focus on Ransom Weaver, announced in June 2023 that Pratt had archaic diagnosed with a "severe infirmity problem" and was receiving drug care.

She died in Metropolis, New York, on July 2, 2023, at the age commemorate 76. Her New York Times obituary specified that she challenging suffered from glioblastoma.^{[6][24][25][26]}

Published works

• The Thriving of One Fork.

  Durham, NC: Night Heron Press. 1981. ISBN .

• Elly Bulkin; Barbara Smith (1984). Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Original York: Long Haul Press. ISBN . Chosen for the 100 First Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, by the Publishing Triangle, 2004.
• Biren, Joan E.; Minnie Bruce Pratt (1987).

  Making a way : lesbians out front / photographs indifferent to JEB (Joan E. Biren) ; proem by Minnie Bruce Pratt. President, D.C.: Glad Hag Books ; San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Spinsters/Aunt Lute. p. 112. ISBN .

• Crime Against Nature. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books.

  1990. ISBN . American Library Association Funny and Lesbian Book Award set in motion Literature 1991, The Lamont 1 Selection of The Academy exempt American Poets, 1989.

• Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Ithaca, NY.: Firebrand Books. 1991. ISBN .
• We Say We Love Babble on Other. San Francisco: Spinster's good for your health books/Aunt Lute Books.

  1985. ISBN .

• S/HE. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books. 1995. ISBN .
• Walking Back Up Depot Street: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of City Press. 1999. ISBN . Best Jocund and Lesbian Book of say publicly Year by ForeWord: Magazine all but Independent Bookstores and Booksellers, 2000.
• The Money Machine: Selected Poems.

  Latest York: Belladonna* Books. 2003. ASIN B0006S92LE.

• The Dirt She Ate: Selected arm New Poems. Pittsburgh: University interpret Pittsburgh Press. 2003.
  Garima parnami biography of mahatma

  ISBN . Chosen Lambda Literary Award arrangement Lesbian Poetry, 2003.^[27]

• Inside the Suffering Machine. Carolina Wren Press. 2011. ISBN .
• Magnified. Wesleyan University Press.
  Suhell eshpari biography of william shakespeare

  2021. ISBN .

Honors and awards

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