Minda Honey

1 week ago | lyz.substack.com | Minda Honey |Shani Silver |Glynnis MacNicol

The only reason I can continue writing and working as an independent feminist voice out of middle America is because people pay to subscribe to this newsletter. Become a paying subscriber and support the voices you want to hear more of in this world. After I ended my 12-year marriage in 2018, I decided that unless the health insurance marketplace collapsed, I didn’t want to marry ever again.

1 month ago | niemanstoryboard.org | Minda Honey |Mark Armstrong

Just one day after New York magazine dropped a story package about people secretly subsidizing their Big Apple lives with generational wealth, I took a train into New York City for the book launch of Edgar Gomez's “Alligator Tears,” a memoir-in-essays about a very different experience: growing up poor in Florida. Gomez was joined by bestselling novelist John Manuel Arias (“Where There Was Fire”), who praised Gomez for their ability to make us look at and interrogate class on every page.

Oct 30, 2024 | reckon.news | Alexis Wray |Minda Honey

I am notoriously bad about watching things on TV — in fact, I don’t even own a TV. For more than a decade, I’ve watched everything on my laptop. But somehow back in August, HBO Max lured me in with a new documentary series from the creator of “Tiger King.” This time, exposing the chimp-owning community.

Oct 24, 2024 | reckon.news | Minda Honey

October is Gullah Geechee Heritage Month, which, as described by “is an important time to honor and recognize the rich cultural heritage of the Gullah Geechee people, who are descendants of West and Central Africans enslaved on the coastal plantations of the Southeastern United States.” I had the pleasure of blurbing the recently released memoir by movement journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire, “Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast.” So I invited Powell-Ingabire to chat...

Oct 10, 2024 | reckon.news | Minda Honey

You know that moment in the movies when the rescue helicopter crests over the trees and the people down below throw their arms in the air in relief, hearts surging with joy? Yeah, that’s about how it feels in real life to be saved by the military. I was on the phone with my sister, three days into being stranded without electricity or running water on a mountain at a retreat 90-minutes outside of Asheville in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.