JeffWeinstein (he/him)
@jiweinste.bsky.social
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). https://www.artsjournal.com/outthere/
What a find.
Have no idea who put this pristine copy of 11 late-career Frank O’Hara poems—copyrighted by the estate and compiled by Ted Berrigan in 1974—in a little free library box on Cooper Square. But, I think I’m going to hold onto this one…
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What a find.
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
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PrEP Aware Week 2025: Jeff's Story
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October 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
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October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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.
August 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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.
Powerful analysis of a political culture that uses Barkan's book as a series of writing springboards.
For @newrepublic.com , I wrote about the stylishly written new book by Ross Barkan, Fascism or Genocide, which purports to deal with fascism in America and genocide in Palestine but actually deals with neither newrepublic.com/article/1980...
A Book Called Fascism or Genocide That’s Reluctant to Discuss Either
Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Powerful analysis of a political culture that uses Barkan's book as a series of writing springboards.
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.
I wrote about the humane, profound and until now quite difficult to find poetry of Essex Hemphill for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging
He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop.
www.thenation.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
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.
For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about the surveillance state and education in the U.S., and how an incisive group art show in Brooklyn is affectionately, indignantly, sorrowfully taking stock of education’s history and status quo thebaffler.com/latest/down-...
Down by the Schoolyard | Daniel Felsenthal
At Brooklyn’s Amant, a group show examines the complexities of modern-day education—and the parallels between campus and prison.
thebaffler.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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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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.
May 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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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.
Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
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May 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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.
Terri L. Wilder of SAGE and I talking about the threat of funding cuts to HIV prevention:
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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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March 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Terri L. Wilder of SAGE and I talking about the threat of funding cuts to HIV prevention:
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Another Felsenthal must-read — and do listen to the later albums recommended, you may be completely surprised.
I wrote an appreciation about one of my all-time faves, Marianne Faithfull, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Many Resurrections of Marianne Faithfull
No matter how many times she was counted out, the late singer knew how to imbue her mythology with new energy.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Another Felsenthal must-read — and do listen to the later albums recommended, you may be completely surprised.
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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 ✨
Join us next Thursday, February 6 at 7pm ET for a panel discussion co-hosted with @bookcritics.bsky.social about why the book criticism landscape has shrunk—and how to navigate it. bit.ly/surviving-book-criticism
January 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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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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...
Joe McPhee: I’m Just Say’n
Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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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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...
February 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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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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...
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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January 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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...
Please, listen and then read, or read and listen. It’s a laugh and cry wonderment.
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...
Joe McPhee: I’m Just Say’n
Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Please, listen and then read, or read and listen. It’s a laugh and cry wonderment.
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.
Wrote about the inimitable and beloved Kevin Killian, definitely the best critic in the history of Amazon dot com lol and among my favorite writers whose lifetime (RIP) intersected with my own, for @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
A 700-page collection of Amazon reviews by the late ringmaster of a literary troupe
Author Kevin Killian was astoundingly erudite, even among his heady artistic milieu in pre-tech San Francisco. In online reviews, he found a stage on which to explore identities.
www.latimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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.
This piece — about his collected letters — finally opened my Joe Brainard door, much wider than I ever expected.
Felt like kismet when @thebaffler.com asked me to write about Joe Brainard— a writer and artist who defined what being gay and bohemian could be when I was 22, and now, some ten years on, immersing myself in his work was like remembering an unresolved urge thebaffler.com/latest/no-or...
No Ordinary Joe | Daniel Felsenthal
Joe Brainard’s trove of letters leads him down from Mount Olympus on a staircase of his own words.
thebaffler.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:09 AM
This piece — about his collected letters — finally opened my Joe Brainard door, much wider than I ever expected.
It was a strenuous and illuminating shoot.
Me and @jiweinste.bsky.social, photograph by the ever-poignant Chris Buck, from our photoshoot with The Guardian Saturday Magazine earlier this year
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 AM
It was a strenuous and illuminating shoot.
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🚨 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/...
November 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
🚨 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/...
I’m the husband, not 33. Brave eye-opener by darling Daniel.
Yes, I’m a very serious and political critic of les arts, and/but I’m also super gay. Here’s a piece about my sexuality and relationship I published recently: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I’m 33 and my husband is 77 – this is why I only sleep with older men
Men in my situation have to come out twice: first as gay, then as someone who is attracted to senior citizens
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November 15, 2024 at 10:21 PM
I’m the husband, not 33. Brave eye-opener by darling Daniel.
First Bluesky post.
November 15, 2024 at 9:07 PM
First Bluesky post.