![]() ![]() lesbian direct action group, which participated in civil disobedience at the 1987 protest of the Bowers vs. Later she became a member of LIPS, a Washington, D.C. ![]() While attending the University of North Carolina in 1978, she joined Feminary, southern feminist writing collective based in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. ![]() In 1977, Pratt helped found WomonWrites, a Southeastern lesbian writers conference. She is on the faculty of Union Institute & University, a distance education school. She is a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. Pratt is the author of Crimes Against Nature (1990), a book where she describes losing custody of her children because of her lesbianism. Pratt, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received a Hellman/Hammett grant from the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because of their experience as "a target of right-wing and fundamentalist forces during the recent attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts." She has written extensively about race, class, gender and sexual theory. in English literature from the University of North Carolina (1979). from the University of Alabama (1968) and earned a Ph.D. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville, Alabama. ![]()
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