For
@NewYorker
, I wrote about the East Village Eye—a paper with columns by David Wojnarowicz and Cookie Mueller, and one of the first to cover hip hop. It was a peak of my reporting life to go under Bryant Park, where
@nypl
will store the Eye archives!
92NY, a cultural venue, pulled an event on Friday featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen after he signed an open letter critical of Israel. The decision drew criticism that the organization was stifling voices it disagrees with.
may god bless me with one quarter the chutzpah of sarah schulman, who showed up to host peter staley’s memoir launch tonight with typed pages of factual corrections, in what was actually a performance art iteration of Conflict is Not Abuse
For
@parisreview
, I visited the late Carolee Schneemann’s house. Built in the 1750s, it was a center of the artist’s life and work for more than fifty years. The preservation of her home mattered more to Schneemann, she said, than that of her art.
last October, I was reviewing Robert Glück’s About Ed, a book about death. then it became a fall defined by death—in Palestine, my classroom, and my family. here is the essay that review became, on mourning, militancy, witnessing, and politicizing death.
There was no one quite like Didion, the critic and novelist who embodied California style and New York precision—and now her devotees have the chance to see, and perhaps even own, a pair of her legendary sunglasses.
come listen to Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail on thursday evening! almost forty of us will be reading the Palestinian novel aloud, start to finish. we’re raising money for Palestinian students now in Egypt 🍉
@Columbia
“Let go! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!”
Demonstrators continue rallying at
@columbia
well past the 9pm deadline set by the school to clear the lawn.
A significant portion of this growing crowd of at least 400 know they may face arrest, and are ready for it.
wrote a sort of drash about Passover, Columbia, and what the student activists understand about escalation and liberation. up at
@thebafflermag
, with photos by
@drhannahryan
After six months of archival research, about a dozen interviews with surviving heroes of
@actupny
, and two years of
@LESHRCNYC
shifts with
@oldfigs
, so grateful that this piece is finally out in the world.
“I have spent weeks in the New York Public Library with every document I can find on the early needle exchange. There doesn’t seem to be a gathered history anywhere, so I am rapidly filling a notebook, trying to put things in order.”
I wrote about David Wojnarowicz and devotional fandom for The Paris Review! Thanks to
@SophieHaigney
for officially editing, and my friends for unofficially editing many, many pages about David over the last few years.
"I wish risk-taking was understood as a base part of human compassion. You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people." Honored to interview my mentor and friend Kathy Ottersten about civil disobedience and more for
@JewishCurrents
Leonard Abrams, the editor of the East Village Eye, passed away last weekend. His memory is a blessing, and his legacy is a gift to the city. It was an honor to write about his work, just in time.
In 1979, Leonard Abrams started the East Village Eye, which chronicled the cultural life of downtown New York. Last fall, he handed the archives off to the
@nypl
.
I wrote a memorial note for Kathy Ottersten, a remarkable activist who was once the only openly trans member of ACT UP, in the
@JewishCurrents
Shabbat newsletter
this morning i taught a client to test his coke for fentanyl, trained another to use narcan in case his girlfriend overdoses, and distributed syringes and glassware. ALL of these supplies reduce harm and should be federally funded!
RIP Kathy Ottersten, who died yesterday. I learned so much from our friendship—about courage, grace, love, militancy, and fighting alongside an imperfect left. They will be profoundly missed.
"I wish risk-taking was understood as a base part of human compassion. You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people." Honored to interview my mentor and friend Kathy Ottersten about civil disobedience and more for
@JewishCurrents
When a group of pandemic students has a reunion & one has just gotten a book deal & another has gotten a cake decorated with the title & you ask a random guy to take a break from getting stoned to take a photo...
this, friends, must approximate an ordinary weekday in heaven
reposting because today, on my 10th day of covid isolation, my friend Daniel came and played the Fast Trip, Long Drop soundtrack on his clarinet under my window
“Bordowitz calls Fast Trip, Long Drop a documentary, but it has one foot in the fictional realm, a sort of variety show of captured, reenacted, and imagined realities.” New:
@hannahpgold
on Gregg Bordowitz’s retrospective at MoMA PS1.
you can now preorder debut books from two of the smartest writers i know:
@emmelclein
and
@eliza5cool
. a gift to your future self enduring cold and short winter days!!
love telling test and trace that no i have not been at work because my union
@SW_Columbia
is currently running the biggest active strike in the country
reposting because this month marks four years of shifts at the LESHRC needle exchange 💉 come get fentanyl test strips and narcan! harm reduction is as vibrant and as needed as ever in new york city!
“I have spent weeks in the New York Public Library with every document I can find on the early needle exchange. There doesn’t seem to be a gathered history anywhere, so I am rapidly filling a notebook, trying to put things in order.”
“We do not say, ‘Let our people go.’
We say, ‘We have already gone. And your kids? They’re with us now.’” -Naomi Klein at the
@jvpliveNY
seder last night
It's past midnight, and turnout of students and faculty has filled the entire plaza of Columbia University. An end to US complicity in the genocide of Gaza remains their focus, they insist, despite media attempts to divert attention to issues like student safety or free speech
I’ll be on
@outfm
tonight, speaking about the late Kathy Ottersten’s life and legacy! Listen at 99.5fm in New York or . The interview will be at ~8:30pm ♥️
Both Niki de Saint Phalle's and Gregg Bordowitz's work addresses the ongoing AIDS epidemic. In conjunction with both exhibitions,
@Visual_AIDS
and What Would an HIV Doula Do? made a zine guide to 21st century harm reduction practices. Download it now at
BREAKING; New York City to open first legal supervised injection sites in the United States.
So much love & gratitude to all who have fought w/us to win this important victory. Especially those we’ve lost to overdose along the way. 💜
Congratulations to Kate Zambreno for being awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction! Her highly anticipated new book, TO WRITE AS IF ALREADY DEAD, comes out June 8th.
@GuggFellows
felt underprepared at a protest so compiled with Tess this zine of protest resources including tear gas first aid, tips in case of arrest, ally etiquette, corona precautions, and emotional aftercare. distributing downtown in Portland, lmk if you want the PDF!
grateful to have a mentor who not only teaches us to write, but speaks candidly about precarity, care work, and the cruelties/indignities of laboring under capitalism
for
@observer
i interviewed one of my heroes, KATE ZAMBRENO, about her newest book. tho i planned out q's about the book, we talked instead a ton about motherhood and the struggle to create.
thank you to
@erinisaway
for being a great editor on this!
“I have this game I’ve been playing with myself lately: every time a fellow ‘emerging writer’ or ‘multidisciplinary artist’ refers to their own work as ‘transgressive,’ I make a sincere attempt to suppress suicidal ideation.” from my brilliant/asshole friend
@TheChillestWill
♥️
"Reading Jack Skelley is like driving in a Corvette up the 101 in Malibu on fairy dust while a steady stream of lingual ephemera smacks you repeatedly in the face." My review of 'Fear of Kathy Acker' by
@JackSkelley
is live now!
my co-volunteer and dear friend Grace is leading a narcan training tonight on zoom! narcan is sprayed in someone’s nose and can immediately reverse an otherwise fatal overdose, and we should all be carrying it! all the time!
I’ll be on
@outfm
tonight, speaking about the late Kathy Ottersten’s life and legacy! Listen at 99.5fm in New York or . The interview will be at ~8:30pm ♥️
.
@LAReviewofBooks
calls Kate Zambreno's DRIFTS "the exact ambition of the evolving genre-curious/nongenre that Zambreno continues to push forward with each new book, never more effectively than in this latest volume." 🎉
30 years ago today! My 8th arrest. WaPo has a big story out today, looking back at this pivotal demo which changed the course of patient advocacy -- with quotes from Fauci, Mark Harrington,
@thegarance
, and yours truly ().
"I wish risk-taking was understood as a base part of human compassion. You take the risk to save lives. Maybe that’s how you love people." Honored to interview my mentor and friend Kathy Ottersten about civil disobedience and more for
@JewishCurrents
Did an interview about Berlin Quarterly for Stack. Longer version praised NYRB, The Point, The Yale Review, and N+1 for their pandemic journals and dispatches
i’ve loved this story since before it was written, but am still so moved by its final form, which is gutting and right on devotion, selfishness, and fandom. mazel tov to my brilliant friend
@robfrank__
!