the schwartzman building in bryant park.i worked in exhibitions and my job is really collective memory. you start with the mayor form, virginia woolf walking stick. it's all over the place. during that time i began to think a lot about allison freda "forever" which i found an example in a book when i was in grad school. i didn't want to be someone who is known as a woman, i wanted tenure and i thought you cannot touch love as a woman as a historian or else you're not gonna get a job. i thought about it for years and i felt like it was a really interesting story and explains so much about the origin of prejudice against same-sex love. i felt like if i knew the story and didn't talk about it and didn't make the connections i was somehow complicit in it. that's what i felt about washington too. i love presidential biographies, the audible series the presidents "presidents are people too!" would require in my mind to understand what it was going on as i read micro history. i would also read three or four biographies of the same