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What does it mean that TV's biggest hit is a mega-steamy gay romance at the same time as anti-queer hatred rages out of control?

#society #politics #united states

"It’s funny what’s shocking and surprising to them and what’s not shocking and surprising to us."

Ciara Miller, Glamour Magazine

#culture #society

"Theater is not for punks, okay? Theater is for the strong. You have to have discipline. I love that it’s a living organism."

Taraji Henson, NY Magazine

#culture

"Capitalism and queerness have never been compatible."

Jen Mecum, NY Times

#new york #society #culture #economy

Perhaps no American city is defined by its trade-offs quite like New York. Tight living quarters and eye-popping prices are the cost of living in a dynamic metropolis. But some work force leaders fear that today’s tribulations threaten to prevent young native New Yorkers from staying and dissuade all but the wealthiest transplants from settling.

Troy Closson, NY TImes

#economy #new york

"They stopped innovating, buckled under investor pressure, and landed with private equity firms looking to cut their losses. But for millennials who grew up with them, it’s deflating to watch an era of idealistic brands end in such humiliation. The bigger worry is that it could discourage the next generation of founders and investors from seeing business as a force for good."

Elizabeth Segran, Fast Company

#money #society

DAYBREAK

#film

DAYBREAK

#film

Not that work should give purpose to our lives. But it’s really hard to shake the feeling that the basic condition of our employment nowadays is to pretend it’s not as pointless as we know it to be.

Some people are probably not burned out from overwork. They’re burned out from how hollow the work feels. We might be burned out from absurdity.

From spending all day moving things forward that do not need to exist, on behalf of systems nobody believes in, while still being expected to speak about it all with total professional sincerity.

Sometimes “lack of motivation” is just your conscience refusing to fake enthusiasm. What we are calling “competency porn” might be just collective grief, you know what I mean?

Rodrigo Brancatelli

#society #work