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CLAGS x MOMA Writing Club

Join us for a special Pride Month edition of Writing Club, a collaboration between CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) and MoMA. This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in queer and trans perspectives, art, methods, and liberation. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.

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Amber Musser Amber Musser

I’m Your Baby Tonight

The camera is tight on a close-up of a brown eye looking from left to right. The dance music starts; the camera pans over to the other eye; and then a close-up of the famous red lips is in front of the camera—parted before they purse into an mmhmmm. The camera zooms out to reveal more of Whitney Houston’s face as she sets with mood with atmospheric yeahs. Soon we see Whitney rocking a short shag, brown leather jacket, ripped jeans, and a single dangling cross earring. She smiles and sings, stepping into the mirror throughout in order to emerge as someone else—a Marlene Dietrich white-pants–suited type, a Supremes type replete with sequin minidress and frosted lipstick, and a gamine Audrey Hepburn type in a slim black turtleneck, black ankle-length pants, and white socks. In each of these scenes, Whitney dances and smiles. At the end of the video, she takes off on a motorcycle.

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