Donna Minkowitz
@donnaminkowitz
Writer. Author of Ferocious Romance, Growing Up Golem, and DONNAVILLE. Former writer for Village Voice, work in The Nation et al. donnaminkowitz.com
Oh my God, Lit Lit, Beacon NY's open mic for writers, is happening THIS FRIDAY at 7 PM. Because it may be a little hot, we're having water-pistol fights and an All-Gender, All-Adult-Age Wet T-Shirt Contest as well as tons of amazing poems, stories, essays, memoir, and satire.
On the whole I'd rather have a smoothgroin. (Quotes from former Platner girlfriends interviewed in new NYT article).
Oh god, Ken Klippenstein invented a new way to be misogynistic while pretending to be left.
New Orleans LA turned out thousands for No Kings. Multiracial, multi-age rally. Favorite part: Skeeta Hawk Brewery nearby sells a beer called "Nazi Pumpkins Fuck Off!"
Labor Secretary's husband barred from the Department of Labor after two female staff members accused him of sexually assaulting them in the building. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
This cannot stand. Fight him forever, until our bones crumble into dust.
It's here. It's real. The Beacon Belching Contest, to raise funds for Indivisible 845 and Fareground (a local food access group), and to raise our spirits. Friday Feb. 27 at the Beahive, 6 Eliza Street, Beacon NY at 7 PM. $10 more if/less if. To sign up, email litlitseries AT Gmail.
Our friend Thomas Chatterton Williams. Via @katz.theracket.news
I bit the bullet. I'm going to enter the Frank N Furter contest Sept. 18, also known as the Frank N Off Pageant. Yeah, I'm gonna be Frank. Come see all us Franks at Industrial Arts Brewing in Beacon NY. It's a fundraiser for Newburgh Fringe Festival. #newburghny #beaconny #hudsonvalley #lgbtqia
My publisher, Indolent Books, had a malware attack that wiped it off the web. I’m happy to say they're back online, but it took a lot of $ that were not budgeted for, and they still need to restore the archives of 3 beloved poem-a-day projects (HIV Here and Now, What Rough Beast, and Second Coming).
It's Anti-Fascist Pasta Day! This holiday is celebrated around the world as the day when Mussolini fell. (The fascists had demonized pasta as "anti-virile," according to the wonderful substack Notes from Emiko's Kitchen.)
200,000 marched illegally for Pride in Hungary, defying Orban who threatened them with fines and imprisonment.