Join us on 3/13 for CLAWS, a graduate student conference focused on film, fashion, and media studies. Topics range from the intersection of gender and race in Halle Berry’s “Catwoman” to the contemporary semiotics of the Hand in Lady Gaga’s performanes https://bit.ly/4cY4K5e
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
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Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
Zohran’s already turned the Knicks into champions, this guy can do anything.
Production designer Grace Yun on building fear, memory, and longing: from the unsettling domestic spaces of Hereditary to the quiet hauntings of Past Lives. Read the full conversation w @ahaut.bsky.social on Design Observer.
Every vote for Zohran Mamdani is a love letter to NYC.
A dream job! Very excited to apply for this
Earning just 9% of league revenue, @wnba.com players are demanding fair pay. Their protest t-shirts are changing how sports activism looks today. New essay by @ahaut.bsky.social
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Nominations are open for The Design Observer 20! This year we're looking for Radical Collaborators - people, projects, and ideas using design to solve urgent challenges through cross-disciplinary collaboration. Deadline Sept 5, 2025. Nominate here: wkf.ms/45zZQaz
The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us."
The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league.
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Nesrin Ismail, makeup head for Hulu’s Deli Boys, shares how beauty becomes a form of storytelling, identity, and resistance. From Bollywood glam to immigrant grit. Interview by @ahaut.bsky.social
New DBBD episode: @ethanmarcotte.com talks responsive design 15 years on, why he left 18F, the ethics of AI, and how compassionate design and tech labor organizing can shape a better future. Listen to the full episode out now. 🔗
One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!
Jealousy, by Edvard Munch, 1913-15
Diaspora Co. founder Sana Javeri Kadri shares how she meets some of the world’s hardest problems with the thing that gives her the most joy, and encourages others, especially fellow brown women, to do the same. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Y’all, you put a MAJOR spoiler for something that has not even happened in the show yet randomly in the middle of this article. No spoiler alert or nothing. As someone who hasn’t played the game, that is really annoying
Massacre in Boston, by Jacob Lawrence, 1955, 📸 by Brian Babineau
A man in a Knicks. Zohran is holding a microphone up to him. He’s say, “Bing Bong.”
Josh Hart is an All-Star caliber difference maker.
My latest for @designobserver.com Can a Hollywood blockbuster teach us tactics for resistance?
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Cameron Payne.
Severence's Milchik X tv off by Kendrick Lamar
Pull quote on a light purple background with white text: ‘What we are actually trying to do here in Community Pass is connect together all the different actors required to make digital transactions happen, so that smallholder farmers can access banking, sell and buy goods, go to school, and have a form of identification.’ – Tara Nathan
Smallholder farmers need more than just land, they need access to banking, markets, and even identification. Mastercard’s Tara Nathan explains how Community Pass is connecting the dots to make that possible. Listen now 🎧
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Clarence Maclin and Divine G at the 2025 #Oscars
My latest for @designobserver.com interviewed Mike Marino, makeup artist for one of my favorite films and favorite series of the last year
Knew you’d love this 😋
