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In This House We Believe Family Trumps Politics
Mom after yoga, 2020. (All photographs courtesy of Gillian Laub.)
The photographer Gillian Laub, a bleeding-heart liberal, loves her flamboyant family. They also happen to have fallen in love with Donald Trump.
By Suzy Weiss
09.28.21 — Culture and Ideas
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Among the many unforgettable photographs in Gillian Laub’s new book, “Family Matters,” is Mom after yoga. In it, a middle-aged woman sporting all-white athleisure and a vambrace of gold bracelets is stretched out on a white carpet in savasana, or “corpse pose.” A few feet away, Fox News is on a huge flatscreen TV. It’s the height of the 2020 election, a…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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