The Mayor’s Mother
What Mira Nair taught Zohran Mamdani.
Rebecca Traister is currently a writer at large for New York Magazine and has covered politics, media and entertainment from a feminist perspective for twenty years. She has also worked at The New York Observer, Salon and The New Republic; her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Vogue.
What Mira Nair taught Zohran Mamdani.
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