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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ALT Birmingham Little Five Points, clinic defense 2007.
ALT The final, successful 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, 54 rainy, muddy miles on US 82, two-lane road. Not everyone had shoes to wear on this march. Poem "A Pile of Dirt" from M.B. Pratt, "Inside the Money Machine," Carolina Wren Press/Blair, 2011.
ALT Minnie Bruce Pratt, 1982 anti-Klan protest, Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Joan E. Biren
ALT Leslie Feinberg practices self-defense, Central Park, New York City, 1985
ALT poem quote from 'Magnified' poems, Wesleyan University Press & Charis Books, preeminent feminist bookstore of the South Photo: Minnie Bruce Pratt & Leslie Feinberg, moving day, Jersey City, March 16, 2009 Photo credit: Leslie Feinberg © 2009
ALT Tweet screenshot reading: Marge Greene wants a ‘national divorce.’ She wants to divide the country by red states and blue states. As a resident of a blue age, I fully support this idea *laugh emoji’
ALT Leslie Feinberg & Minnie Bruce Pratt in Vieques, January 1993, in t-shirts, Leslie's arm around MB shoulder, MB with red hibiscus behind one ear, wild green vegetation behind.
ALT Selma, Alabama, Jan. 12, 2023: a street of wrecked small houses
ALT On March 8, 2015, the 50th anniversary of the Selma march over the Pettus Bridge, Jimmy R and Minnie Bruce carry the yellow banner 'Selma Is Now: the Struggle for Justice, Jobs and Liberation Is Everywhere' workers.org
ALT Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nick Orth (in apron) and Michael Desalvo, at Friends of Dorothy House, Dec. 23, 2019.
ALT from left to right, Laura Jaffee, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Vani Kannan, Montinique McEachern, Nikeeta Slade, Syracuse, Oct 2019.'On the Bus, Talking to the Sun' No one taught me to talk to the sun though we came face to face every dawn, unacknowledged friend with only one name, one-way conversation at the speed of light. Now my reply, late, but long before never: Hello, you big stare of fire, kiss of whither this morning through the mussed bus window, you mist-melting flare at last night’s late frost, you shape-shifter of pear and apple trees igniting white torches and bonfires that burn year after year whether people are near or not. You hot breath on the rivers, cooking up the smoke that cloaks our way right now, souvenir of primordial soup from where we all come, oh yes, familiar face, staring in at my neighbors reading about pedicures, filling out truck-route computer forms, re- wrapping hair from night to white-clouded sky-blue scarf. In ten minutes we get off
ALT Giant figure of Mumia with arms outstretched in front of public building embraces a group of people with signs that say "Free Mumia!" a Black Panther and globally known 'Voice of the Voiceless' reporter imprisoned for 40 plus years in Pennsylvania. See 'UN steps in with amicus brief for Mumia' workers.org/2022/12/68161/
ALT Leslie Feinberg, turned to the left, in glasses and at microphone against black backdrop, speaks to 'Free Mumia' rally as part of 'Rainbow Flags for Mumia' contingent, Town Hall Meeting, New York City, 1999.