Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: This article considers Minnie Bruce Pratt and her southern identity. Through an analysis of her personal writings, poetry, and reflections on her own life, I explore the formation of lesbian activism in concert with southern feminine identity. My goal is to expose the risk of a continued reliance on southern tropes that work to silence variations in southern womanhood. What is striking in the political moment of 2025 is understanding that Pratt's work emanated from a southern upbringing and southern identity that she never abandoned.
Source: Journal of Lesbian Studies
Author: La Shonda Mims
Institution: University of Birmingham
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4416608783