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in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Arabelle Sicardi 英梅
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I write about beauty as an act of devotion, an art form, and a means of control. 🥀 Substack 🌸 arabellesicardi.substack.com “The House of Beauty” 📕 wwnorton.com/books/9780393531633 Oct 2025
![“This is a Band-Aid—I am trying my best while people in power deal with policy. This is what I can do,” explains Raines. In an interview with Vogue on her work during the pandemic, she confessed that doing the work with the pandemic crowding the city is skyrocketing her anxiety. “It’s very unsettling for me and my team. Of course, we’re paranoid and washing our hands 24/7. Of course, my family is concerned. My kids and my sister beg me, ‘Please, don’t go out there,’ and I’m just like, ‘I gotta. We can’t give up on them right now. [I have asked the people here to] lay back, close their eyes, and trust that my Fighters for the World will make sure nobody will run up on them. We gained their trust with consistency by coming every Saturday. And that can’t end now. It is essential that we don’t lose that love and trust we’ve worked so hard to get from this community.” Raines lost her job recently due to pandemic budget cuts, but she’s still coming out every weekend with donations from her online network of supporters. She is still handing out roses from her car window and apologizing for not being able to hug the now-familiar faces on the street who call her mom, who call her godmother, who ask her about her health and her family.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:csybcmx2fyidu4dzj6oz45ap/bafkreiass5nqrkgjx2ho4qdn6epgbtrkk5hsmpc5qpde5p35nmrf5dvhii)
