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On language

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Cornel Wilde typing by a pond in New Mexico in John M. Stahl’s “Leave Her to Heaven” (1945)

When I was younger, I did not understand how poet Minnie Bruce Pratt could refer to Leslie Feinberg, who used a variety of pronouns in hir public life as a transgender lesbian and revolutionary communist, as she and her in their home together. They had this intimacy, as Pratt describes in a recent interview, “as lesbian lovers.”

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