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Rough Tongue

Donna Minkowitz

Urgent, sexy, tender, leftwing essays.

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So much happened this month, and so much is about to be here! Lit Lit, the giant open mic for writers that I host in Beacon, NY, had its fifth anniversary, and I couldn’t be more proud. This democratic, ultra-grassroots event where 20 write...

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Hey everyone. I know I haven’t been writing on here in a while.

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ACT UP New York, sometime in the 1980s.

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