Minnie Bruce Pratt
| Minnie Bruce Pratt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 12, 1946 Selma, Alabama |
| Occupation | Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Ph.D. in English literature |
| Alma mater |
University of Alabama (BA, 1968) University of North Carolina (Ph.D, 1979) |
| Subject | race, class, gender and sexual theory |
| Years active | 1975-present |
| Spouse | Leslie Feinberg |
| Children | Ransom Weaver Ben Weaver |
| Relatives | Her parents are Virginia Brown Pratt, a social worker, and William Luther Pratt Jr., a clerk. |
| Website | |
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Minnie Bruce Pratt (born September 12, 1946 in Selma, Alabama) is an American educator, activist and essayist. She is a Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York where she was invited to help develop the university’s first Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Study Program.
Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville, Alabama. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Alabama (1968) and earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina (1979).
She has written extensively about race, class, gender and sexual theory. Pratt, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received a Hellman/Hammett grant from the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because of their experience as "a target of right-wing and fundamentalist forces during the recent attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts."
Pratt is the author of Crimes Against Nature (1990), a book where she describes losing custody of her children because of her lesbianism. She is a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper.
She is on the faculty of Union Institute & University, a distance education school.
In 1977, Pratt helped found WomonWrites, a Southeastern lesbian writers conference. While attending the University of North Carolina in 1978, she joined Feminary, southern feminist writing collective based in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. Later she became a member of LIPS, a Washington, D.C. lesbian direct action group, which participated in civil disobedience at the 1987 protest of the Bowers vs. Hardwick sodomy law decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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