sarah
@moveablejaw.bsky.social
Leo sun, Aquarius rising, Taurus moon, personal account #FreePalestine
Wrote a piece for LIMN about working for certain people at a certain art museum in New York in my 20s - can you guess which one? limn.press/article/conf...
Confessions of an Art World Ghost - Limn
The museum’s army of invisible labor
limn.press
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Wrote a piece for LIMN about working for certain people at a certain art museum in New York in my 20s - can you guess which one? limn.press/article/conf...
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The bubble of prestige TV has burst. Netflix serves up good and bad shows, and its algorithm doesn’t editorialize. In recent years, AppleTV+ has emerged as “the new HBO.” But take a closer look, and you see it as a platform for advertising Apple products.
Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books
Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…
www.publicbooks.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The bubble of prestige TV has burst. Netflix serves up good and bad shows, and its algorithm doesn’t editorialize. In recent years, AppleTV+ has emerged as “the new HBO.” But take a closer look, and you see it as a platform for advertising Apple products.
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“Apple’s ‘Price-Tag TV,’ to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the difference between good and expensive.”
Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books
Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…
www.publicbooks.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“Apple’s ‘Price-Tag TV,’ to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the difference between good and expensive.”
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New at PB: Michael Szalay considers how AppleTV+, dubbed the new HBO, actually isn't. Rather, its expensively produced offerings prop up Apple’s prestige play, lazy watches for the affluent and self-satisfied.
Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige - Public Books
Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the…
www.publicbooks.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New at PB: Michael Szalay considers how AppleTV+, dubbed the new HBO, actually isn't. Rather, its expensively produced offerings prop up Apple’s prestige play, lazy watches for the affluent and self-satisfied.
Check out I Kissed a Girl on BBC and read Tori McCandless’s excellent essay thereon in @publicbooks.bsky.social!
New at PB, Tori McCandless reviews BBC’s reality show “I Kissed a Girl,” where the “most heartwarming moments correspond to the girls being vulnerable with one another and sharing difficult life experiences underwritten by homophobia, external or internalized.”
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Check out I Kissed a Girl on BBC and read Tori McCandless’s excellent essay thereon in @publicbooks.bsky.social!
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New at PB, Tori McCandless reviews BBC’s reality show “I Kissed a Girl,” where the “most heartwarming moments correspond to the girls being vulnerable with one another and sharing difficult life experiences underwritten by homophobia, external or internalized.”
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New at PB, Tori McCandless reviews BBC’s reality show “I Kissed a Girl,” where the “most heartwarming moments correspond to the girls being vulnerable with one another and sharing difficult life experiences underwritten by homophobia, external or internalized.”
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Witnessing the happiness of “I Kissed a Girl’s contestants is possible, Tori McCandless writes, because we also witness their successful navigation of a world that is unwelcoming of difference––which includes navigating a lot of big, often bad feelings.
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Witnessing the happiness of “I Kissed a Girl’s contestants is possible, Tori McCandless writes, because we also witness their successful navigation of a world that is unwelcoming of difference––which includes navigating a lot of big, often bad feelings.
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Though similar in premise to “Love Island,” BBC’s “I Kissed a Girl” has more wholesome “teachable moments” that aim to present and explore some aspect of queer culture.
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Though similar in premise to “Love Island,” BBC’s “I Kissed a Girl” has more wholesome “teachable moments” that aim to present and explore some aspect of queer culture.
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To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat, Tori McCandless argues, is to miss why it’s important how the show represents bad feelings.
It misses how such bad feelings necessarily correspond to any joy the show represents.
It misses how such bad feelings necessarily correspond to any joy the show represents.
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat, Tori McCandless argues, is to miss why it’s important how the show represents bad feelings.
It misses how such bad feelings necessarily correspond to any joy the show represents.
It misses how such bad feelings necessarily correspond to any joy the show represents.
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“What makes ‘I Kissed a Girl’ so great is that it foregrounds queers who openly relay their traumas. And they do so, crucially, without being consumed by such traumas, or erasing the essential differences they reveal.”
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“What makes ‘I Kissed a Girl’ so great is that it foregrounds queers who openly relay their traumas. And they do so, crucially, without being consumed by such traumas, or erasing the essential differences they reveal.”
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“The good feelings are contingent on a history of listening to her body and realizing that her embodied experience of racism and homophobia offers evidence of what is wrong with the world.”
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“The good feelings are contingent on a history of listening to her body and realizing that her embodied experience of racism and homophobia offers evidence of what is wrong with the world.”
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“I Kissed a Girl” is full of chaotic gay energy, sex jokes, and campy moments.
But it also beautifully honors the ways in which queer joy is earned.
But it also beautifully honors the ways in which queer joy is earned.
Queer Joy Is Earned—and Requires Earnest Care
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.
www.publicbooks.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“I Kissed a Girl” is full of chaotic gay energy, sex jokes, and campy moments.
But it also beautifully honors the ways in which queer joy is earned.
But it also beautifully honors the ways in which queer joy is earned.
Fantastic piece by Jannat Suleiman out today in @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/hijabs-on-th...
Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please! - Public Books
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
www.publicbooks.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fantastic piece by Jannat Suleiman out today in @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/hijabs-on-th...
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“Despite the persistent modern dilemma around the diversity and inclusion of Muslim women and hijabi women as a right-wing red herring, it’s the streaming platforms—not the Hollywood executives—that have consistently taken a chance on such characters.”
Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please!
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
www.publicbooks.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“Despite the persistent modern dilemma around the diversity and inclusion of Muslim women and hijabi women as a right-wing red herring, it’s the streaming platforms—not the Hollywood executives—that have consistently taken a chance on such characters.”
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New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) tracks the differences in hijabi representation on TV and in films. Hollywood studios, she concludes, rarely portray hijabi women, and when they do, there’s often much that’s misrepresented.
Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please!
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
www.publicbooks.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) tracks the differences in hijabi representation on TV and in films. Hollywood studios, she concludes, rarely portray hijabi women, and when they do, there’s often much that’s misrepresented.
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New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) asks: Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please!
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
www.publicbooks.org
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New at PB: Jannat Suleman (@theamateurstake.bsky.social) asks: Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
The notion that dissent should be peaceful is liberal brainwashing at best but I was doing supply runs at the action in DTLA yesterday & it was as usual the cops & the national guard inciting violence against people justifiably angry about being terrorized & deported by ICE.
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The notion that dissent should be peaceful is liberal brainwashing at best but I was doing supply runs at the action in DTLA yesterday & it was as usual the cops & the national guard inciting violence against people justifiably angry about being terrorized & deported by ICE.
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We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
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March 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
Rest well Jonathan Sterne, a truly wonderful human in addition to being a brilliant intellect. When I met him he told me he didn’t go to any conference or invited gig unless it promised to be a good time & every time I saw him after that was indeed a good time. Lots of love to all who loved him. 💖
March 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rest well Jonathan Sterne, a truly wonderful human in addition to being a brilliant intellect. When I met him he told me he didn’t go to any conference or invited gig unless it promised to be a good time & every time I saw him after that was indeed a good time. Lots of love to all who loved him. 💖
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“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”
truthout.org/articles/as-...
truthout.org/articles/as-...
As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom
Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.
truthout.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”
truthout.org/articles/as-...
truthout.org/articles/as-...
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All out to free Mahmoud Khalil in Federal Plaza today! 🔥
March 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
All out to free Mahmoud Khalil in Federal Plaza today! 🔥
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A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
March 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
Multiple helicopters overhead.
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
Want efficiency? Get rid of the cops.
March 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Want efficiency? Get rid of the cops.
Sometimes being in an English department is so fucking wild
March 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sometimes being in an English department is so fucking wild