S/HE

Overview

A groundbreaking exploration of sex, gender, and identity through poetry and memoir.

In S/HE, Minnie Bruce Pratt challenges societal norms and explores the fluidity of sex and gender through a series of poetic vignettes. This collection narrates a love story with Leslie Feinberg, and examines the boundaries between masculinity and femininity. Pratt theorizes sex and gender as spaces for freedom and pleasure.

S/HE is for readers interested in:

• LGBTQ+ literature
• Feminist theory
• Transgender studies
• Queer relationships

Discover a powerful exploration of identity and love that gives "theory flesh and breath," challenging binaries and celebrating the complexities of sex and gender.

Author Biography

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.