The Aesthetics of Safety
I find beauty in being protected from danger.
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...more“Making people feel heard and seen and not left out to dry is my job.”
...moreIt’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
...moreWe have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
...moreIt was a new world; it was the same world.
...moreThere are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
...more“What does disabled look like?”
...moreHave we come to bury the antihero, or to praise him?
...more…slavery isn’t African-American history, it’s American history.
...moreTo watch Jersey Shore is to watch my fantasy, only it’s an imperfect recreation.
...more“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
...moreI praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
...moreIn 1979, my mother decided she wanted to join Bhagwan’s ashram in Pune, India.
...moreMark your calendars, gentlemen—and watch your backs!
...moreThe story of Rajneeshpuram is told in a series of events and everything within it is true. But it is not real. It does not come alive.
...morePerhaps it’s more productive then to think about Rebecca’s craziness as a source of sanity in a crazy world in which women are routinely disregarded.
...moreIn 2017, newscaster cameos may be the only fact-fiction crossovers for which people have no difficulty keeping the two concepts apart.
...moreI’m not here to wallow in what feels like our new dystopia, no. Me? I am here, to rest up before the next bout. I am here to watch The Price Is Right and make friends.
...moreThe day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO’s new series, The Deuce.
...moreActor and painter Burt Young talks filmmaking, art, and the years he spent living on a sixty-three-foot yacht.
...moreDidn’t he see what I saw: how a person could survive the unthinkable and still be broken by something as soft and uncertain as loneliness?
...more[A]ll this sensationalism has made The Weather Channel, inadvertently and ever increasingly, the essential television viewing experience of the Anthropocene.
...moreIn Westeros, revenge mostly operates within the feminine realm…
...moreAt the New York Times Sunday Review, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist asks whether television shows have become reliant on cliffhangers as a way to retain viewership season over season.
...moreIf there is no distinction between show and commercial, ethics and entertainment, what kind of distinctions, if any, exists between her imaginary play, her consumer life, and our reality?
...moreCritics have noted how The Keepers is similar to other prestige documentaries but with a significant difference—its focus on the victims and their stories.
...moreThe more first-time stories I heard, the longer I was willing to wait.
...moreAs a longtime fan, it pains me to say it, but Sarandon is everything that’s wrong with mainstream, non-intersectional white feminism.
...moreCharacters like Mary and Rhoda hadn’t been turned into stereotypes of single women in their thirties or career women or divorcees. They couldn’t be: they were the first.
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