Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 - Minnie Bruce Pratt

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Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, Minnie Bruce Pratt, 1991, United States, ESSAYS

"...She writes of when she first discovered her "outsider" status as a lesbian: "I did not yet understand that to come to a place of greater liberation, I had to risk old safeties. Instead, I felt I had no place; that, as I moved through my days, I was falling through space." She uses insights into her own "loss of place" to explore the dynamics of privilege and differences in other contexts, within other cultural, racial, political, religious, and sexual contexts..."

(K.B., p. 171)