In the wake of an Academy Awards show that will resonate for a very long time to come, today I choose to blur the memory of the display and reward of toxic masculinity with the purity of emotion performed in the words and actions of Questlove, Ariana DeBose and that startling and poetic exchange when Lady Gaga held space for Liza as she gently faltered in her line delivery. "I got you.” “I know.”
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