FIRST MONDAYS March 2- LANA POVITZ on Shulamith Firestone, new work from MATHEW RODRIGUES, and an unpredictable but assuredly memorable provocation from MELISSA FEBOS.

Friends- It's time again for my August 9-14 Prose Writing for All Levels workshop in Provincetown. Registration is Jan 28- and it usually fills up in 24 hours, so if you want to do this, jump on it. Any question? Ask below. Only ten spots. fawc.org/summer-progr...

FIRST MONDAYS! BOBUQ SAYED, SA'ED ATSHAN, ALEX CHEE ! Don't be Alone!!!!! Come be together with like-minded people. Join us for FREE on Monday February 2- doors open at 6:30- Performance Space New York- 150 First Avenue. Tickets in link ci.ovationtix.com/203/producti...

The US illegally invades and occupies Venezuela, kidnaps its leader, and thereby illegally seizes control of its oil.

For people who speak French: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

RIP Rosa Von Praunheim. Among many, many memories, Rose brought me and Michael Callen and Robert Hilferty to Germany to try to start ACT UP. Now I am the only one still alive from that trip. But for now here is his film "Positive." www.youtube.com/watch?v=84c3...

Review: glreview.org/article/an-a...

MARY GAITSKILL, DENNIS COOPER, DAVID VELASCO- December 1 at First Mondays- 150 First Avenue, doors open at 6:30- for FREE tickets :https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1248870?performanceId=11682798

Friends- I will be in Saint Louis on November 14 at Luminary at 2 pm and at the great LEFT BANK BOOKS at 6 m in conversation with Maxi Glamour. Then on November 16 at SALT LAKE CITY's community bookstore UNDER THE UMBRELLA at noon. Come by and say "hi." www.visitsaltlake.com/event/humani...

Whoever got paid a zillion dollars to re-brand MSNBC as MS NOW obviously never heard of MS Magazine or the National Organization for Women.

JOURNALISTS who want to write novels: There is a FREE program for you, thanks to the gifts of George RR Martin (Game of Thrones.). I have been teaching in this seminar for a few years and it is a SPECTACULAR opportunity. Info and application Below: www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...

Friends in MADISON, WI- November 6 I will be at the Humanities Center at the University. Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave. 5 pm! With Emily Callaci author of the great new book on Wages for Housework. humanities.wisc.edu/event/hwb-sa...

LOOK- MONDAY, November 3- doors open at 6:30. I mean, MARLON JAMES!!!!! PEOPLE!!!! One of the greats of our time. TAREQ BACONI bringing us news from the queer Palestinian Diaspora. CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN-bold, writer from Singapore. free tickets at www.performancespacenewyork.org

Friends- SPECTACULAR free program for FIRST MONDAYS on November 3- MARLON JAMES, CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN, TAREQ BARONI. Doors open at 6:30. Register for your free tickets at PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org.

Most anticipated new film: Palestine 36 by Annemarie Jacir- in theaters October 31. Palestine's Oscar entry. www.screendaily.com/news/palesti...

New York is BACK

On October 10th- ten years after its 1st incarnation- the underground classic JASON AND SHIRLEY by Stephen Winter starring Jack Waters will be shown in its DIRECTOR'S CUT at BAM. One of my RARE acting appearances (as the filmmaker Shirley Clarke) newfest.org/events/jason...

300 Northwestern students are refused registration for boycotting an administration mandated propaganda film made by the Jewish United Fund that compares anti-Zionists to the Klan. Yes, this is insanity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FIRST MONDAYS resumes on October 6 - (doors open 6:30, event starts promptly at 7) THEATRICAL- with M LAMAR, PHOEBE LEGERE, KAREN MALPEDE. Free tickets at: PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org. 150 First Avenue 4th Floor. Don't be a stranger!!!!

CHICAGO People: October 15th at Northwestern- an incredible conference of Colombian writers-FREE!!! Including our friend Jaime Manrique! With the amazing Julian Delgado Lopera and...from Colombia Gloria Susana Esquivel!

Friends in MINNEAPOLIS, Join me at MOON PALACE on September 29 at 6 pm. moonpalacebooks.com/events/31879...

1. Call me "Cassandra" but I want to repeat an earlier observation that it is the ADMINISTRATIVE CLASS that's handing over society to fascists: University Administration, Corporate Executives, Elected and Appointed Political Officials, Media Moguls, Corporate Law Partners, Supreme Court Justices.

Alabama Friends- I will be at New South Books in Montgomery on Sunday at 2. www.alreporter.com/2025/09/11/a...

Friends, I am going back out with my new book, THE FANTASY AND NECESSITY OF SOLIDARITY. If you are in Chicago, Northampton, Montgomery AL, Highland Park IL, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Ridgewood NYC, Madison, St Louis, Salt Lake City or Columbus OH, please stop by.

Friends, I am going back out with my new book, THE FANTASY AND NECESSITY OF SOLIDARITY. If you are in Chicago, Northampton, Montgomery AL, Highland Park IL, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Ridgewood NYC, Madison, St Louis, Salt Lake City or Columbus OH, please stop by.

First Mondays returns October 6th w/ season opener: M LAMAR, PHOEBE LEGERE, KAREN MALPEDE- The theme is THEATRICAL- Meet + mix with other writers and artists for free to hear new works-in-progress from our most outrageous, talented, exciting artists. performancespacenewyork.org/shows/theatr...

The new season of FIRST MONDAYS is live. New works-in-progress from: M Lamar, Marlon James, Mary Gaitskill, Dennis Cooper, Alex Chee, Sa'ed Atshan, Danzy Senna, Parul Seghal, Melissa Febos and many many more. Reserve your FREE tickets now. performancespacenewyork.org/series/first...

NY Times: Here is a normalizing retelling of insane destructive crazy nonsensical things Trump is doing that makes it all sound sort of rational.

This is how it’s done, No Bull 💩, No drama and No Grandstanding!

It seems to me that ending the intentional starvation and mass killings of Palestinians is more important than existential musings about Jewish “pain” and futures. Is this disconnect a strategy or a pathology?

All of us in America are financially supporting this Israeli created mass deliberate starvation and massacre in Gaza. This is our crime.---just making record here, again.

Every day our tax money goes to Israel to starve and murder people in Gaza- our media (NY Times and MSNBC) doesn’t cover it. If you let our media determine what you think is important, then you are missing what is actually happening and become part of the distraction.

If you want to understand how courageous Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson really is, and grasp the full range of corruption of the Supreme Court- listen to Amicus. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

44 years ago today. The epicenter of the AIDS crisis lasted for 15 long hard years. We're not yet the first year of the current cataclysm. Be as steady as you can. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

As a co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers and the original Dyke March - I am so proud, 33 years later, as thousands march in NYC behind a “Dykes Say No To Fascism” banner, in support of Palestinian Liberation, with no corporate sponsorship. Still organic. Still ahead. Still holding a freedom vision.

1. In Today's News as we approach Queer Liberation Weekend: --Israel's slaughter of Gaza is so beyond a "war crime"-someone will have to invent new concepts to contain the enormity of this brutality, this suffering, and a new way to measure the depraved indifference of those who rule the world.

New Yorkers! I will be at The Bureau (in the W 13th Street LGBT Center) on MONDAY at 6 presenting my new book The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. Please join me! www.bgsqd.com/event/the-fa...

Friends, I've been going around America talking about Palestine + how to make Solidarity more doable. 3 readings left: -June 11, Brooklyn for Peace 110 Schermerhorn St, -June 20, Somerville Mass @ Connexion, 149 Broadway -June 23 THE BUREAU, NYC LGBT Center W 13th www.bgsqd.com/event/the-fa...

Hi Friends, Join me in: PITTSBURGH- White Whale Books, May 26 7pm LOUISVILLE- Carmichael's May 28, 7pm ATLANTA/DECATUR- Charis Books, May 30, 7:30 Looking forward to meeting you.

Hey Friends in the WEST- Join me at: Skylight Books -LA-w/ Danzy Senna- May 7 City Lights Books -SF- w/Caro De Robertis May 8 Elliot Bay Books -Seattle- w/Dan Berger May 10 Powells -Portland-w/Lydia Kiesling May 12 Haymarket House -Chicago w/ Daisy Hernandez March 14

Friends in Manhattan, Brooklyn, LA, DC, Baltimore, SF, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Providence, Boston, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Atlanta, and Somerville- lets talk!

First Mondays SEASON FINALE- May 5th- FREE ALICIA GRULLON - Legendary Bronx Performance Artist. HUGH RYAN- Radical Historian- previewing new work on the East Village Queer Avant Garde. MAAZA MENGISTE- Ethiopian-American novelist + Booker Finalist

Friends- My new book is launching in NYC: April 22 at The Strand w/Shiv Kotecha April 23 at Greenlight Books w/Linda Villarosa -You need reservations- links below www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/sarah-...

Susan Abulhawa’s response to PEN America’s complicity with genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/04/susa...

FRIENDS- This Monday! 7 pm! Natalie Adler (editor of LUX magazine and debut novelist) Carter Sickels (bard of Appalachian trans life) Susan Stryker (ICON- previewing major work on trans history) WE WON'T GO BACK!

Canary Mission, a Pro-Israel Group that Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of Penn Trustee theintercept.com/2025/04/02/p...

LESBIANS! AIDS! TRANS PEOPLE!- Keep our voices loud. FREE FIRST MONDAYS April 7 at Performance Space New York-WE'RE NOT GOING BACK! NATALIE ADLER - Editor of LUX Magazine and debut novelist CARTER SICKELS- bard of Appalachian trans life. ICON: SUSAN STRYKER- previewing new work on trans history.

Israel resumes systematic, intentional mass-murder of civilians. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...