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Minnie Bruce Pratt, Alabama native who pushed for LGBTQ equality, dies at 76
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.
Her death comes after her sons announced in June that she had been diagnosed with a serious health condition.
Pratt was a prolific advocate and writer throughout her life. She pushed the boundaries of feminist teaching and thinking. She wrote poems and essays about race, class, gender and sexuality, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Poetry samhälle of amerika, Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle.
In 2022, she wrote for AL.com that she and other lesbian, transgender and gender-nonconforming people “have always been in Alabama.”
Pratt was born in Selma and graduated from Bibb County High School. She attended the University of Alabama just one year after Geo
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"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
Introduction (Given by Margaret Rose Gladney)
Minnie Bruce Pratt was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, in the hospital closest to her hometown of Centreville. She graduated from Bibb County High School when it was racially segregated and entered the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa a year after George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door." Here in Tuscaloosa, she earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she also received her education into the great liberation struggles of the 20th century through grass-roots organizing with women in the army-base town of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and through teaching at historically Black universities.
For five years she was a member of the editorial collective of Feminary: A Feminist Journal for • If there’s one thing about Minnie Bruce Pratt that everyone should know, it’s that she never stopped working for us. For all of us. Pratt, who passed away on July 2, spent her life on the frontlines of the fight to dismantle white supremacy and this racist, cis heteropatriarchy society born in its destructive construction. She fought for queer and trans rights, for women’s rights, and for the end of systemic racism, racial capitalism, and U.S. imperialism. A self-described “Southern femme” who “always talk[ed] ‘too loud’,” she believed in the possibility of “the sweetness that can come when all is made right,” and she never stopped trying to turn that possibility into a reality. Trying to capture in words this life she lived in all its brilliance and difficulty and beauty seems daunting and impossible, but her work, her contributions, her writing, and her legacy deserve our struggle and our attempt to. Pratt was born on September 12, 1946 in segregated Selma, Alabama,