THIS WEEK
📺 WATCH: Dig out your old lasso and cuff bracelets on Christmas for Wonder Woman 1984. Follow that up with Shonda Rhimes’ Bridgerton and Disney Pixar’s Soul. If you liked that viral F-you 2020 video, the Death to 2020 mockumentary might be your jam. How deep is your love for the Bee Gees? 11 drag queens pay tribute to Meryl Streep.
🎸 LISTEN: 10 holiday songs for and by feminists. KRS-One just released his 23rd album, called “Between the Protests.” The trumpets in “Dirty Little Virus,” Iggy Pop’s new song about the coronavirus. Rolling Stone staffers’ best music of 2020.
📚 READ: Reflecting on The Color Purple (the movie) 35 years later. NYT readers share some good things that happened in 2020. MacKenzie Scott, opening her checkbook: “Hold my beer.” An excerpt from Kenya Hunt’s new book, Girl Gurl Grrrl. Finding my father through his relationship with Judaism. We can’t wait to join Roxane Gay’s book club.
🎨 ENJOY: Ground control to Santa: Please bring us David Bowie Monopoly this year. Vintage IKEA calatog covers as Zoom backgrounds. Donna Shalala named her dog Fauci. One woman’s series of anti-perfectionist selfies. A Gen-Xer’s reflections after re-reading Coupland’s Generation X. Eddie Izzard uses “she/her” pronouns now, and her “Cake or Death” is still perfect. BINGO: “Things I didn’t have on my 2020 Bingo card.”
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (photo: Clay Enos/AP)
STORY: No Moping! 7 Ways Our Team Is Planning to Survive a Quarantine Christmas
By Heather Graham
We can’t travel. No one outside of our pods should come over. We’re grieving all of the people lost to COVID. Money is tight. The general feeling is: “This year f**king sucks.” But we’ve gotten this far; we can definitely make it from here to New Year’s. Not sure what to do?
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Merry Christmas, TueNighters!