Minnie Bruce Pratt

Lesbian writer poet, anti-racist anti-imperialist activist, teacher mother grandmother, life-partnered with beloved Leslie Feinberg for 22 fabulous LGBTQ years.

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A celebration of the life of Minnie-Bruce Pratt.

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Thank you for joining us in celebration of the life of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Memorial service will begin at 2pm on September 30, 2023, and will livestream via the YouTube link below.

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The memorial for Minnie Bruce Pratt being held this weekend in Syracuse can be seen viewd here on Saturday, 9/30, at 2pm. Navigate here and you will have access to the live stream. A link to a recording on YouTube will be posted here following the event. We hope you can join us.

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Information regarding live streaming and/or recording of the event being held in Syracuse on Saturday, 9/30, will be posted here when available.

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Please navigate to https://t.co/NQi1nlKO6E for an important announcement about Minnie Bruce Pratt's health.

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Mia Raven, a reproductive justice advocate & hellraiser in Montgomery, Ala., facing unexpected medical issues, died last week. Donate to the POWER House, Yellowhammer Fund, West Alabama Women’s Center, in her memory. Rest in power, Mia, and thank you!

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MLK: U.S. war on Vietnam was biggest obstacle to fighting for civil rights & against racism in the U.S.
See yourself below & in struggle now? Here's to
"a world where we will have more to say of a person on their last day
than that she worked for her whole life & then she died."

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Getting ready since the 1980s & earlier--SELF-DEFENSE & anti-Klan/anti-Nazi networking

'Don`t let those men fool you about the ways of life
even if blood must sign your name.'

Minnie Bruce Pratt, 'Red String' (excerpt):
"Walking Back Up Depot Street" (U of Pitt Poetry)

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FEB. 23: “Fight for Florida Students & Workers” FLA International Univ. “Can’t Ban Us” 12:00 – 1:00 pm. Share for trans people & ALL: the right to determine the fate of our own lives! https://t.co/CAchiBXwx7
MBP: You say: 'Yes, leave the window open. The air smells so sweet.'

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READ 'Hammer & Hoe' about the strength of Black communists in rural Alabama in early 20th century. Know our struggle history! Use your WORKER power! I though my racist Pa was raving when he denounced communists in our state--now I know he feared them firsthand! Read @GrimKim!

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look I don’t like the government either but I really hate seeing this type of shit from snide liberals who don’t know a goddamn thing about people outside of their little bubbles. I am begging you people to read ‘Hammer & Hoe’ or talk to one (1) Southern or rural organizer

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Dock workers stop shift to #FreeMumia & demand justice for #TyreNichols. Fight back with your coworkers! We have the POWER to change the world!

[Labor Against Racist Terror #UnionStrong @labor_against]

#UnionStrong dockworkers in Oakland CA and in South Africa stop shift to #FreeMumia and demand justice for #TyreNichols
@ILWU_10 @ilwulongshore @ilwu23ywc @paythewriter @Numsa_Media @BringMumiaHome @pastpostal65 @MumiaAbuJamal @LaborFightsBack @MBPratt

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#AlabamaSpring for Alabama prisoners--
March 4 Decatur & March 8 Montgomery.

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#AlabamaSpring will be kicking off with events around the State of Alabama beginning this Sunday at Decatur Community Work Center. Also, events will take place March 4, in Selma, Ala, and March 7, in Montgomery, Ala, during the

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We save each other with our love!
'At the beginning, when you were sick,
we stood at the edge of the vast escarpment,
the sudden drop-off toward what we did not know...
And yet. The hope we took in that cold view cast
far beyond us.'

Minnie Bruce Pratt, from 'Magnified' (2021)

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Today: sacred to poetry, coming together to resist bigotry, our human history of cooperation.

..the spiral nebula,
a smudged white thumbprint on the night sky,
a mark left by the hand of Night, that old she...

she drank the galaxy that spun
small and cautious between her hands

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A Jan. 12 tornado hit Selma, Ala. A friend there said they needed strong mutual aid so people can rebuild and/or rent adequate housing. #SelmaIsNow
from 'The Tornado'
"...the whirlwind says ... revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution infers the future presence of us."

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Praise the essential workers who cut our hair & cooked meals for us in the pandemic! Shout-out to beloved Michael Desalvo, his salon Hairanoia & Nickolas Orth.
From "Cutting Hair" : "Sleeping alone, she opens & closes her long scissors & the hair falls under her hands...."

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@RyanCookpoetry No longer publishing but key to lesbian, feminist and women of color movements from the 1970s-1990s: Persephone Press, Kitchen Table Press, Firebrand Books