Pratt, Minnie Bruce

Work by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. The Sound of One Fork. Chapel Hill, NC: Night Heron Press, 1981.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. We Say We Love Each Other. Spinster Ink/Aunt Lute Books, 1985.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. We Say We Love Each Other. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1992.

Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1984.

Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Crimes Against Nature. Firebrand Books, 1989.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Firebrand Books, 1992.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1995.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Books, 2008.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Walking Back Up Depot Street. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. “Rose Gladney Lecture: When I Say ‘Steal,’ Who Do You Think Of?” Southern Spaces, July 21, 2004. https://doi.org/10.18737/M7459X.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Robin L. Riley, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, eds. Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism. London ; New York: Zed Books, 2008.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Inside the Money Machine. Durham, NC: Carolina Wren Press, 2011.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. “The Queer South: Where the Past Is Not Past, and the Future Is Now.” Scalawag, January 27, 2020. http://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/01/queer-south-minnie-bruce-pratt/.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Magnified. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2021.

Interviews/Videos

A Conversation with Activist and Writer Minnie Bruce Pratt, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlML7cd_nwY.

Belladonna* Lesbian All Stars Celebrates Minnie Bruce Pratt, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtE5E97xTPc.

Celebrating Minnie Bruce Pratt’s New Poetry Collection Magnified, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1B6LvN-N-Y.

Crooke, Jerald. “A Triumph: Dr. Minnie-Bruce Pratt.” Higher Ground Society. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://soundcloud.com/highergroundsociety/a-triumph-dr-minnie-bruce-pratt.

Growing Solidarity - Minnie Bruce Pratt, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxO503ppoUU.

Harris, Laura, and Elizabeth Crocker, eds. “Pronouns, Politics, and Femme Practice: An Interview With Minnie Bruce Pratt.” In Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, 190–97. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Hunt, V. “An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Southern Quarterly 35, no. 3 (Spring, 1997): 97. https://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.e....

Minnie Bruce Pratt, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nF4I30nSI.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, and Linda Carty, eds. “Minnie Bruce Pratt - Being in Motion: Building Movements across Generations.” In Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope, 73–84. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2018.

Navickas, Kate. The limitations of Liberation in the Classroom: Lessons from Minnie Bruce Pratt. Pedagogy: critical approaches to teaching literature, language, culture, and composition (January 2020) Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 49-58.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Minnie Bruce Pratt. Interview by Kelly Anderson, March 16-17, 2005. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

Reading Minnie Bruce Pratt at Online Conference “30 Years of Stone Butch Blues – Memories and Visions,” 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9l4fix5eYw.

Work About Minnie Bruce Pratt

Brightwell, Laura, and Allison Taylor. “Why Femme Stories Matter: Constructing Femme Theory through Historical Femme Life Writing.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 25, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 18–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1691347.

Cantrell, Jaime. “Subscribe to Feminary! Producing Community, Region, and Archive.” In Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories, edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, 311–55. SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.

Carty, Linda, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. “Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Solidarity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements, edited by Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt, 82–115. Oxford University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943494.013.010.

Eagleton, Mary. “Working Across Difference: Examples from Minnie Bruce Pratt and June Jordan.” In Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities, edited by Elizabeth Russell, 129–50. Cross/Cultures 52. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

Enszer, Julie R. “Feverishly Lesbian-Feminist: Archival Objects and Queer Desires.” In Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories, edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, 149–71. SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.

Enszer, Julie R. “Night Heron Press and Lesbian Print Culture in North Carolina, 1976–1983.” Southern Cultures 21, no. 2 (2015): 43–56.

Farley, Tucker Pamela. “‘the Dirt She Ate’: Minnie Bruce Pratt ‘Acting Contrary Somehow’.” The Lesbian Review of Books 8, no. 1 (Oct 31, 2001): 3. (Review of Walking Back Up Depot Street).

Graff, E. J. “Struggling with Gender.” The Women’s Review of Books 12, no. 10/11 (July 1995): 25. https://doi.org/10.2307/4022170. (Review of S/HE).

Greenslit, Sara. “Girl’s Guide to Blurred Gender Lines.” The Lesbian Review of Books 2, no. 1 (October 31, 1995): 25. (Review of S/HE).

Harker, Jaime. The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Innes, Charlotte. “Questioning Out Loud: A Book about Pain, Poetry, Possibility -- and a Peach.” Lambda Book Report, 01, (1992): 19. (Review of Rebellion).

Kawada, Louise. “Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A BioBibliographical Critical Sourcebook. 420-426. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Mixon, Amanda. “‘Not in My Name’: The Anti-Racist Praxis of Mab Segrest & Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 24, no. 3 (2020): 199–213.

Peckham, Joel. “Reconstructing Self, Sex, and the South: Minnie Bruce Pratt’s ‘Walking Back Up Depot Street.’” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 55, no. 2 (2013): 207–33.

Visser, Serena, Jaisie Walker, and Suzanne Lenon. “Notes in the Margins: A Conversation about Minnie Bruce Pratt’s ‘Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart.’” Feminist Formations 32, no. 1 (2020): 227–37. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2020.0019.

Dissertations/Theses

Doolan, Khirsten. “The Blood of the Covenant: A Queer Southern Literary Genealogy.” Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2021. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2549725899/abstract/BB06EB29985C4ED3PQ/1.

Kranz, Tova E. “Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey.” M.A., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2034477039/abstract/1014891458C241D7PQ/1.

Mixon, Amanda Jean. “Twentieth-Century White Southern Lesbian Writers & Anti-Racist Praxis.” UC Irvine, 2021. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jr1r3w4.

Other

The Minnie Bruce Pratt Papers are housed at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. More information including a finding aid is available here: https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/m1cd3z

A copy of her writings for Workers World is available here: https://www.workers.org/author/minnie-bruce-pratt/

Her page at The Lesbian Poetry Archive is available here:
http://www.lesbianpoetryarchive.org/node/210

Her page at The Poetry Foundation is available here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/minnie-bruce-pratt

Compiled by Julie R. Enszer and Taylor Marie Doherty