“There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.” Quote by Kathryn Finney
“It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.” HardCitiesMillionsNew YorkFoundationFundDiverseFounders Author:Kathryn Finney
“I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.” ThinkingWayDifferentRocksDifferent WaysInvitedChange YourselfGlamGlam Rock Author:Todd Haynes
“What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.” InterestingGayBoundariesErasMasculinityBreaking DownFemininityBisexualityGlamAndrogyny Author:Todd Haynes
“The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.” KindCharacterQualityNiceGenerationsIntrospectiveBrooding Author:Todd Haynes
“I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.” ThinkingWorldLongHardReadingSpeakMaterialsGayTraditionVisibleFascinatingCamps Author:Todd Haynes
“In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.” ThinkingWayMusic IsBrilliantCamps Author:Todd Haynes
“In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.” WayTryingDoeCultureRocksElementsResearchOscarsAmerican CultureGlamGlam Rock Author:Todd Haynes
“A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.” ModelsTraditionOscarsRefusalWilde Author:Todd Haynes
“The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.” WayTryingIdeasCultureWitShockOscarsHomosexualityAttackingClevernessEarnestnessBowieBryanRockersWildeFerryGlam Author:Todd Haynes
“In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.” ThinkingDifferentFactsIdentityPropertySticksRoutesDressingsLiberating Author:Todd Haynes