Queer activist Minnie Bruce Pratt explains how liberation in the Queer South also means learning from and acting on the traditions of resistance that people bring to the South from outside of our region.
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Minnie Bruce Pratt is a writer and activist who came out as a lesbian in North Carolina in 1975 and now lives in her Alabama hometown and Syracuse. She is the co-author of Yours in Struggle: Three Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism with Barbara Smith and Elly Bulkin. Pratt received a Lambda Literary Award for The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems. Her work has been chosen for the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature, the Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression, and as a New York Times Notable Book.