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JeffWeinstein (he/him)

@jiweinste.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, sometime teacher. Union work. Fights for queer, Palestinian and all human rights. Stubborn verbs: shake, drink, chop, eat (was restaurant critic and “food writer” for ages). www.artsjournal.com/outthere

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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A gorgeous and powerful piece by @dfelsenthal.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, a gorgeous magazine. Love having this in my hands.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I didn’t know the astounding and truly radical history of the early anti-Zionist Jewish Labor Bund until I read @dfelsenthal.bsky.social historically steeped and eloquent review of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country"
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Do you know Roxy Music and foppish frontman Bryan Ferry? Here’s a twisty, exquisite essay by @dfelsenthal.bsky.social in @pitchfork.com that limns Ferry’s later work as a juggle of Brit social class and style — and a way of swimming through age and grief. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the inimitable chanteur’s 1985 solo record, a...
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thrilling and poetic, brave and moving piece by @dfelsenthal.bsky.social , filled with a great writer’s spirit. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05...
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Ode to the Kitchen Bath by Daniel Felsenthal
May 28, 2026 – “There is something so luxurious and, dare I say it, extremely gay about having a bath in the middle of your kitchen.”
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Too Good To Go offers “Surprise Packages” at a big retail discount, and who doesn’t love a surprise? Plenty of us, but the real surprise is that this for-profit company doesn’t make a dent in lowering waste and getting food to those who desperately need it.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Remember vile Orval Faubus targeted black students, the Little Rock Nine? Carlotta Walls’ house was bombed a month before her graduation. She believed "her chemistry teacher had helped other students build the explosive that targeted her.” A must listen, and must read. from @dfelsenthal.bsky.social
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And I’ll add that I have never read anything like @dfelsenthal.bsky.social review/essay/sonorous exegesis of @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social ’s fat and hairy new book. Can’t wait to dive in.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tonight I made the winter chicken soup my imaginary Taiwanese mom or dad would have: TAIWANESE SESAME OIL CHICKEN SOUP (台湾麻油鸡汤). No photos. Broth memory.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Queer trickster” Kevin Killian was mentor, novelist, memoirist, playwright and and supreme poet, as this astounding essay by #dfelsenthal.bsky.social makes clear: "In these poems, culture is the lens through which survivors understand their own desolation…" www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...
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The Party Goes on Forever
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My husband @jiweinste.bsky.social , a legend of food writing, is back in @thebaffler.com with this skeptical, humane, hilarious and exuberantly written exploration of a certain class of upper crust east coaster’s favorite supermarket. A critical piece like no other thebaffler.com/latest/wegma...
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Wegmania! | Jeff Weinstein
Wegmans fancies itself “local.” But while it’s drawn near-rabid excitement from brand loyalists, it doesn’t truly serve the place it calls home.
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Freelance Solidarity Project @fspnwu.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Criticism is a crucial and democratic counterforce in the face of marketing budgets and recommendation algorithms. Help FSP-NWU fight for better rates! nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social
Quote on the graphic reads "Critics and reviewers dedicate themselves to the art of writing, to the cultural and social meanings of books. They create a necessary and important dialogue between writers and readers. We writers usually work in solitude, though writing is never a singular pursuit. What we write comes from the world, not only from the world inside us, but also from the one outside us, and from other lives. Critics help writers understand what our writing might mean to others" by Lynne Tillman. Illustration is by Colleen Tighe, showing a cartoon person seated in front of a laptop surrounded by a toppling pile of books. FSP-NWU Book Critics Working Group is noted at the bottom left
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A wise and gorgeously written essay about the new MG album: "Death may be inevitable, but Darnielle casts out lifelines in his work, rescuing old motifs in order to refuse simple interpretations, tidy conclusions, and despair."
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What a find.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Hello friends! I’m a New York State “ambassador” for PrEP Aware Week.These amazing drugs prevent folks of all genders and ages who have sex from becoming infected with HIV. But with health care under attack, we must fight for access. #PrEPRevolution #PrEPAwareWeek2025 youtu.be/Yc65c2CN7mU
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PrEP Aware Week 2025: Jeff's Story
YouTube video by PrEP Aware Week
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Billy Short @byllyshort.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
PrEP Revolution! PrEP is for everyone, and PrEP is Revolution! #PrEPRevolution #PrEPAwareWeek2025
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Note to folks who also use X/Twitter. My X account was hacked and my request to get it back was quickly denied, for no good reason.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Powerful analysis of a political culture that uses Barkan's book as a series of writing springboards.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Essex Hemphill’s thrilling work has been almost impossible to find, but a new, crucial reissue of his erotic, affectionate, even intersectional poetry is available, and this Nation essay by Daniel Felsenthal explains in gorgeous detail why it can’t be missed.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Here’s a personal, precise, anger-making analysis that examines a group show as clues and cues that unravel the terror and sadness of surveillance-state education. I can’t recall "art writing” quite like this. Bravo Daniel, and Baffler.
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Daily News Union @nydnunion.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Daily News Union mourns the passing of Tom Robbins, brilliant journalist, beloved colleague, friend and mentor to many, and ally to this union. He will be missed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/05/2025
Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, was met with a chorus of boos on Wednesday from some of the 12,000 graduates at the school’s main commencement ceremony as she took the podium to deliver remarks.
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Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Terri L. Wilder of SAGE and I talking about the threat of funding cuts to HIV prevention: kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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Advocates fear 'devastating' HIV resurgence as Trump administration mulls funding cuts
Nowadays, clinics across Minnesota and the U.S. receive money from the CDC to provide prevention services, but Weinstein and Wilder worry it's all at risk.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Another Felsenthal must-read — and do listen to the later albums recommended, you may be completely surprised.
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This fantastic panel I've helped organize with FSP's Book Critics Working group and the National Book Critics Circle is happening next week! RSVP info in original post ✨
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Wrote for @pitchfork.com about an album that's an early contender for my fave of 2025, the devastating and sometimes hilarious new Joe McPhee record pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Joe McPhee: I’m Just Say’n
Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Was so thrilled when Gay45, the estimable and long-running pan-European queer publication, asked me to send them some poems, including the first poem I wrote in adulthood (back in 2021), among others. Read ‘em here: gay45.eu/daniel-felse...
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Insane, evil to use a federal attack on DEI initiatives in order to prevent researchers from uncovering the extent of Harvard’s link to the slave trade—timing isn’t a coincidence! Harvard is just a business using consultants to pad its bottom line, not a university www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates, Lays Off Internal Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard on Thursday laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying descendants of those ...
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Please, listen and then read, or read and listen. It’s a laugh and cry wonderment.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How did I never know about this word-smitten omnivore, who gave the same (or more) respect to a smoothie blender than to "Bonjour Tristesse?” Nibble, bite, devour, both his essay-reviews and this gorgeous bow to it all.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This piece — about his collected letters — finally opened my Joe Brainard door, much wider than I ever expected.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It was a strenuous and illuminating shoot.
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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🚨 Are you a dues-paying member of a union? You can get a year subscription to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for free. Thanks to my fellow FSP member Pete Tosiello for the tip! w1.buysub.com/pubs/IF/ITT/...
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m the husband, not 33. Brave eye-opener by darling Daniel.
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JeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First Bluesky post.
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