We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch … - Minnie Bruce Pratt
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch …
- Minnie Bruce Pratt
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. - Minnie Bruce Pratt
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because … - Minnie Bruce Pratt
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because …
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