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Say hi to Tamar Carroll!

6) "The Gilded Age" which suddenly got good(?) in its third season, in no small part by giving Audra McDonald more to do

5) "Pee Wee Herman as Himself" (it's two episodes, so it counts): a deeply powerful documentary that it is also a surprising retelling of how 70s counterculture made it into mainstream TV

4) "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for the utopia of people still dancing to WHAM in the 23rd century and Paul Wesley's Will Shatner homage

3) A rewatch of "Six Feet Under" that exposed how ridiculous seasons 3 and 4 are but how perfect 1, 2, and 5 for the acting and character development (even just Frances O'Connor / Ruth)

2) "Platonic" on AppleTV for every scene Rose Byrne is in

The very best TV shows I've watched this summer in no particular order and some reasons why:

1) "Too Much" on Netflix for Meg Statler and Will Sharpe's chemistry, a great soundtrack, and a perfect dog arc

Fantasizing Design Exhibition Closing Celebration - Calendar - AIA New York / Center for Architecture

Our exhibition, "Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkbys Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is still up at the Center for Architecture in NYC through Sept 2 -- and we have a special final event with artist Finnegan Shannon on Thursday August 21 in person. calendar.aiany.org/2025/08/04/f...

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To everyone (justifiably) applauding @harvard.edu 's response to the fed. administration's demands: that letter is only part of the story. Harvard's new website went public in coordination with Harvard Pres. #AlanGarber 's letter. It's completely revamped--and it's brilliant. www.harvard.edu. (1/8)

Thanks Hooper!!

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Producing Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose: How Libertarian Ideology Became Broadcasting Balance In the first weeks of 1980, Public Broadcasting Service affiliates across the United States aired Free to Choose, a television series featuring the economist Milton Friedman. This article focuses o...

With more info from Caroline Jack’s article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Free To Choose Network Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video

More here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dngq...

One of my favorite moments in my post-1945 US history course is getting to teach students about neoliberalism using clips from Milton Friedman’s ten part 1980 PBS series Freedom to Choose, with a title sequence eerily similar to Stranger Things excepts instead of monsters it is neoliberalism

Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby Podcast Episode · The Kitchen Sisters Present · 11/19/2024 · 46m

The Kitchen Sisters picked up the podcast episode I’m in about lesbian feminist architect Phyllis Birkby - check it out here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Joan Biren has shared on fb that the great photographer Cathy Cade has died. I interviewed her almost a decade ago and I am especially grateful now to Outhistory for publishing an excerpt from our conversation about her portrait of her own lesbian feminist household outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Volume 30 Issue 4 | GLQ | Duke University Press

Returning here and sharing our new special issue of GLQ, “Queering the Domestic,” co-edited with Martin Manalansan and Lauren Gutterman. You can get a preview at the link! read.dukeupress.edu/glq/issue/30/4

From a few weeks back, my favorite bookstore from when I lived in the East Village.