S/HE
In this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As memoir, S/HE challenges oppressive frames of respectability and womanhood, tracing Pratt’s circuitous path through sex, gender, and sexuality. S/HE also narrates one of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century, providing an intimate portrayal of how Pratt and Leslie Feinberg met, fell in love, and built a life together. Examining the porous boundaries between masculinity and femininity and noting that liberation requires one to question and cross these binaries, Pratt theorizes sex and gender as not only grids for legibility and surveillance but also as spaces for freedom and pleasure. By drawing on the splendid ordinariness of everyday life and quotidian encounters, Pratt gives “theory flesh and breath.” S/HE imagines new queer, feminist engagements in bodies, in politics, and in the messy contradictions of sex and gender.
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S/HE
In this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As memoir, S/HE challenges oppressive frames of respectability and womanhood, tracing Pratt’s circuitous path through sex, gender, and sexuality. S/HE also narrates one of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century, providing an intimate portrayal of how Pratt and Leslie Feinberg met, fell in love, and built a life together. Examining the porous boundaries between masculinity and femininity and noting that liberation requires one to question and cross these binaries, Pratt theorizes sex and gender as not only grids for legibility and surveillance but also as spaces for freedom and pleasure. By drawing on the splendid ordinariness of everyday life and quotidian encounters, Pratt gives “theory flesh and breath.” S/HE imagines new queer, feminist engagements in bodies, in politics, and in the messy contradictions of sex and gender.
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S/HE

S/HE

by Minnie Bruce Pratt
S/HE

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by Minnie Bruce Pratt

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In this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As memoir, S/HE challenges oppressive frames of respectability and womanhood, tracing Pratt’s circuitous path through sex, gender, and sexuality. S/HE also narrates one of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century, providing an intimate portrayal of how Pratt and Leslie Feinberg met, fell in love, and built a life together. Examining the porous boundaries between masculinity and femininity and noting that liberation requires one to question and cross these binaries, Pratt theorizes sex and gender as not only grids for legibility and surveillance but also as spaces for freedom and pleasure. By drawing on the splendid ordinariness of everyday life and quotidian encounters, Pratt gives “theory flesh and breath.” S/HE imagines new queer, feminist engagements in bodies, in politics, and in the messy contradictions of sex and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944981761
Publisher: Sinister Wisdom
Publication date: 12/03/2024
Series: Sapphic Classic
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 278,487
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-2023) was an internationally-acclaimed anti-racist, anti- imperialist lesbian writer, poet, scholar, and activist from Alabama. She is the author of multiple poetry collections including Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, The Dirt She Ate, Inside the Money Machine and most recently, Magnified (2021) a collection of love poems dedicated to her partner and spouse of over 22 years, trans activist-theorist, Leslie Feinberg. Her website, now maintained by her sons, is https://minniebrucepratt.net.

Table of Contents

GENDER QUIZ 8 I. 15 PINK DRESS 16 WOMEN’ S DANCE 17 SISTER 18 WHITE CAMELLIAS 20 POCKET WATCH 22 BARBED WIRE 23 STEAM HEAT 25 ROCK 27 CORNFIELD 29 II. 30 ROSES 31 FIST 32 CLOSED DOOR 33 MAMA 34 GREEN SCARF 36 VERA 37 III. 39 THE OLD DAYS 40 DRAG BAR 41 CAMISOLE 42 BOOTS 43 MARKS 44 SUGAR TIT 45 BEARD 46 ASHES 47 PA 48 MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 49 ENGAGEMENT RING 50 NEW YEAR’ S EVE 51 LUNCH 53 PAINT 55 COOKPOT 57 HUSBAND 58 IV. 59 LIPSTICK 60 RIVERBEND 61 CAFÉ PARADISO 62 SCHOOL 64 FOLDING FAN 65 PENIS 66 FUCK 67 COCK 69 MIMOSA 71 V. 72 PERFUME 73 HANDCUFFS 74 CAMOUFLAGE 75 THE RITZ 76 PILLOW TALK 78 FROSTBITE 79 LUST 80 JELLYFISH 81 FEAR 82 ID 83 THAW 84 GREED 86 KISSES 87 MARTIAL ARTS 88 VI. 89 BARE FEET 90 TATTOOS 92 DRAG SHOW 93 HOUSEWORK 95 EARBOBS 97 BOY 98 BLADE 99 PALACE 100 VII. 102 STRIPPED 103 SUNGLASSES 104 ART GALLERY 105 BATHROOM 106 BORDER 107 PROFITS 110 STONE HOME 111
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