And now we are inside their living rooms, behind presidential podiums, declaring our truest selves with confidence and compassion, even if fictionally.Īnd what of that ripple effect? Rather than speculating with a heavy heart about what might have been, I allow myself (as indulgent and self-congratulatory as it may seem) to consider what the impact of telling this story, slowly over the course of three seasons, creeping into the consciousness of folks in even the most conservative patches of this country, might be. Perhaps it’s obvious. After small bursts of fragile progress, anything more than our very existence still seems to enrage those who seek to reinforce and reimpose the tired and dangerous status quo.īut we are here. We always have been.
But why that word? Why do these spaces, filled to the brim with people who push against the default constructs of our culture, still feel utopian to me? Why do they require that descriptor when they are not imaginary? They’re real and growing by the day, overflowing into all areas with the same pride and self-expression. The women’s pond is perhaps less distinctly queer (though that depends on your definition), but no less a pocket of “utopia,” as I have described it on more than one occasion. To see the freedom, the celebration of life on their terms, made me emotional. I didn’t try to hide the grin on my face as I walked by. Perhaps it won’t surprise you to hear that it was filled with beautiful, buoyant, male-identifying people who I believe I can safely say were members of London’s queer community. On my way, I passed the Men’s Pond and the field that rests just on its border. I recently walked through Hampstead Heath to get to the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, one of my favorite places to spend time in London.
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But I can’t help but wonder: If an out gay woman had been the face, voice and symbol of the free world, would we now be living in a much more equitable, diverse, accepting time? I’m not suggesting that a female president in the 1990s would have been a cure-all for patriarchy and the abuse of power. I’ll just say the words “Monica Lewinsky” for a second, the words “Anita Hill.” But to spend too much time thinking about what America might look and feel like should this fantasy have been real is a trap that only offers frustration and sadness. But as a lifelong member of “the second sex,” standing, sitting, acting in that Oval Office felt like conjuring a truer and more beautiful world*, one that I trust a lot of us long for. A big part of our show is about considering the ripple effects that an even slightly different event or decision might have had on our actual history, and so embodying this alternative has made me do just that. I suppose it doesn’t take much these days. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.TIFF Hidden Gem: 'A Gaza Weekend' Hits Comedic Overtones Without "Cheapening the Suffering"įor those who don’t watch the show, this fictional first female president is elected in our imagined world in 1992. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
Sections 8.7 and 8.8 very briefly discuss ordinally covariant solutions and continuity, respectively. Section 8.6 reviews a few (axiomatic) models where time is involved. Certain applications and implications of axiomatic bargaining game theory for specific economic models are considered in section 8.5. In section 8.4 we discuss some extensions of existing solution concepts to bargaining with possibly nonconvex feasible sets. Section 8.3 deals with probabilistic solutions, which assign to each bargaining game a probability measure on the feasible set. In section 8.2 we consider multivalued solutions, which assign to a bargaining game a subset of feasible outcomes rather than a unique outcome. In this chapter some alternative models of axiomatic bargaining theory are collected.