Minnie Bruce Pratt, an Alabama native, women’s liberation and LGBTQ activist, poet, educator and a hero died Sunday surrounded by friends and family in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 76.
Minnie Bruce Pratt with sons, Ransom and Ben, in 1982.Minnie Bruce Pratt, an Alabama native, women’s liberation and LGBTQ activist, poet and educator, died Sunday surrounded by friends and family in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 76.that she had been diagnosed with a serious health condition.
The Invisible Histories Project, an organization that researches Southern history, called her “a phenomenal poet, a fierce femme lesbian, a fighter for the working class and marginalized, and an unapologetically Southern woman.” “The reason I lost custody of my children was because I could be charged with a felony, and therefore that was it,” she said in an interview with Reckon. “I was an unfit mother. Boom. My children were taken away.”
“Minnie Bruce Pratt is a ‘pioneer’ in every respect of the word,” Gerald R. Greenberg, a professor at Syracuse University, said on the university’s website. “As a teacher-scholar, she is a leader in women’s studies, particularly feminist theory. Yet one of her greatest legacies is still unfolding—that of helping establish our LGBT Studies Program.”Sullivan remembered a card from Pratt — a photo of Pratt and Feinberg — that she said embodies a large part of what she was like.
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