I think that when I became a mother, I was led into this club that I didn't know existed before. And inside of this club, women are much more willing to become instantly intimate with one another because the act of raising a child is not something a person can do on their own.
Share a recipe with a neighbor. Tell them what it means to you, who passed it down and what memories it evokes. Chances are they'll start telling you a surprisingly similar story.
Nothing influences our lives more than place. Our surroundings affect our relationships, emotions, habits, even how long we'll live. So if we design places with care, purpose and the human experience in mind, we can nurture well-being, foster creativity and innovation, build stronger, more resilient communities.
I left a place where I was not welcome, or cared for, or seen, and went to college. But it wasn't until I got to New York and found my people that I actually was like, oh, I can actually be this person. It's okay.
His original goal is he wants to go to a physical place. He wants to go home because that's where he feels he belongs. But along the way, I think he learns that what's more important is he needs a pack and that everyone needs a pack.
Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourselves, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous. It's everything. It's the cake. It's the flour, the eggs, the sugar. It's the oven. It's the heat. It's the love that was put into all of it.
Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourself, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous.
Queer space is about sharing. Yes, we're making space for ourselves, but we're also sharing ourselves and we're inviting people into our circle. We're being generous. Maximalism is generous.
What disappears isn't just people and buildings, it's memory, belonging, culture. I'm not here with a simple fix. What I'm saying is we must rebuild, but we need to rebuild with identity in mind.
During the AIDS crisis, uh restaurants were uh makeshift chapels and had memorial services for people who died. Um at the same time restaurants are places where you can be uh teenager and you're too young to get into a bar or a nightclub, but you can hang out at a gay diner with your friends. On the flip side, you can be an elder and the music at the clubs is too loud and it's too expensive and you feel invisible at a gay bar or a gay club, but at a gay restaurant you can feel seen.
Yes, there there are bad people in the world, but they are so outnumbered by the good people. The people who will want to help you are are so hugely present out there once you leave this car.
If you see your neighborhood as an amenity rather than like as a place in which like many people live and have to live coexisting lives, including people who are very different from you, make different amounts of money, people who look differently than you, then like that is a political perspective that is, you know, projected onto the world, and the dog is just a lens at looking at it.
Larysa delivers more than just mail. She brings income and also groceries, medicines, the news and a familiar face to chat with for those living in isolation.
The homes that most Americans live in are not designed to make people really have any kind of community or connection or broader place in the world. And so when we watch these homes on TV, I think we get to we get a taste of that.
I was trying to capture that initial innocence that we all had. The sense that you were almost in a private room with your friends rather than having it be this public forum that everyone across the world could attend.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
