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May 05, 2005
Minnie Bruce Pratt to Speak at Spring Symposium
Minnie Bruce Pratt is a poet, a teacher, and an LGBT and anti-oppression activist. She may be best known for Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (co-authored with Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith). Her most recent book, The Dirt She Ate, received the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Along with her partner, transgender activist Leslie Feinberg, Pratt has been a courageous and outspoken activist for human rights and has worked across borders of class, gender, nation, sexuality, and race to collaborate with others in movements for social justice. She has written five books of poetry: The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, Walking Up Depot Street, and most recently The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems.
Minnie Bruce Pratt has taught at the University of Maryland-College Park and recently served as the Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies at Hamilton College. Her areas of concentration there were Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. More information is available at www.mbpratt.org.
Posted by mryonker at May 5, 2005 10:57 AM