Dear subscribers to My New Band Is,
We’re moving to a different platform. It’ll probably be Ghost or Wordpress with some kind of email integration, but I want to potentially start this newsletter up again and I don’t want to do it on a platform that keeps openly promoting racists and transphobes. I realize you can’t always keep all the racists and transphobes off of big platforms entirely but you can, like, not stand on top of the building with a megaphone and tell all of your users to subscribe to the “just asking questions” guy who has some race science you might not have seen since it was discredited in 1968. It’s a choice!
So the next email for My New Band Is will likely come from a different URL because MNBI has packed all the boxes and is moving to a part of town with fewer jerks. Also, some housekeeping:
I’m teaching an opinion writing workshop on Zoom on August 9th and 16th from 7pm to 9pm ET. The structure for participants: On August 1st, you'll receive a reading list and an assignment to be completed before the first session. Between the first and second sessions, you'll have a revision assignment and I'll review your first assignment with you individually. The week after the second session, I'll give you a final edit on a completed opinion column and if you aim to get your piece published, some suggestions about where to pitch it.
Since this is a first run, I'm pricing it at $350.00. I'll increase the price once I'm sure I've worked out any potential kinks, but haven't settled on a number yet. You can register/sign up here.
I wrote about Barbenheimer memes for The New York Times. Here’s a gift link if you’re not a subscriber. As I mention in the column, my vibe is more Oppenheimer than Barbie, but I saw both last weekend, in that order. It was like enjoying a tasting menu at a restaurant, where it’s amazing but maybe a little exhausting, and ending the meal with an ice cream sundae laced with THC.
That’s all I’ve got for now. I’ll write again from wherever I land!
Elizabeth