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Inspired by Degas’s (underpaid, exploited, yet no less gorgeous) ballerinas Musée d'Orsay. #dance #ballet #Paris

Swoon! Delighted by the Agnès Varda show Musée Carnavalet, which explores the filmmaker’s close relationship to the city of Paris, especially those inhabitants most often ignored. Rosalie Varda #agnesvarda #womeninfilm carnavalet.paris.fr/expositions/le…

I caved and joined Instagram! My @lipsmarts profile explores alternative beauty in anticipation of my LIPSTICK book Bloomsbury U.S.! Follow me and learn how Grace Jones, Ilona Maher. Chappell Roan, k.d. lang, and Madonna transformed lipstick culture... bloomsbury.com/us/lipstick-97……

In Lisbon, 101 degrees, cold brew served with a slice of orange.

Love this wild, morose child by José Veloso Salgado MNAC-Museu do Chiado

I count on the Current Affairs newsletter as pretty much the only part of my life consistently informative and droll at the same time…

If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far): rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Accidentally matching the Vivienne Westwood show in the basement vaults of the Museum of Design, Lisbon. Vivienne Westwood

“Looking for Scrim meant immersing ourselves in the place where we lived, street by street and night after night.” Moving piece about roving animals—dog, cat, and human—David W. Brown The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

Reality TV show concept: HOUSE HUNTERS, only for birds, called SAY YES TO THE NEST.

This book will be fantastic! Please do not say I didn't tell you this in advance.

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” ~John Berger What’s a scopophilic woman supposed to do with that? For one, read Lori Marso's FEMINISM & THE CINEMA OF EXPERIENCE Duke University Press—which I reviewed hyperallergic! #Womeninfilm hyperallergic.com/1021525/femini…

"[F]abulousness as an embodied aesthetic is in how it actually exposes the bland, boring nature of rote masculinity." ~ madison moore Savoring FABULOUS Yale University Press as I research my next book. Wish I'd included it in my LIPSTICK volume Bloomsbury Academic! yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/06/05/the…

"Agnès Varda had once had a lesbian romance...[her] bisexuality more deeply shades in our understanding of her position in society, her own sociopolitical perspective." Compelling piece Conor Williams on one of my favorite artist-auteurs Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/more-t…

RIP, #fannyhowe. I've been teaching this poem of yours for years—as I have been, for years, learning how to understand it.

Embarrassingly, as a leftist film critic, I was today year's old learning that Zohran Kwame Mamdani's mom made MISSISSIPPI MASALA. This helps explain how he got so cool so young! #MiraNair #WomeninFilm #ZohranMamdani #zohranformayor

Francophiles on #BastilleDay: my new book, FRANCOFILAMENTS Broken Sleep Books, was shaped by my time interviewing film luminaries like Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Laure Calamy, and Céline Sciamma. It’s sexy-sad poetry for midsummer revelry and rapture! brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/e…