![]() In 1977, Pratt helped found WomonWrites, a Southeastern lesbian writers conference. She is on the faculty of Union Institute & University, a distance education school. She is a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. She is the author of Crimes Against Nature (1990), a book where she describes losing custody of her children because of her lesbianism. As a lesbian mother, she had to deal with a custody battle with her husband when she came out. Pratt married and had two sons before coming out as a lesbian. Pratt, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received a Hellman/Hammett grant from the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because of their experience as "a target of right-wing and fundamentalist forces during the recent attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts." She has written extensively about race, class, gender and sexual theory. ![]() Her work in grassroots organisations and her teaching experiences in traditionally black universities strongly influenced her political activism. Pratt attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Minnie-Bruce Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville, Alabama. ![]() Teacher, poet, essayist, educator, and activist Last update of this page: August 16 th 2017 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Minnie Bruce Pratt ![]()
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