This week we explore a radical alternative to traditional living with filmmakers Michael Bullock and Michael Cukr, creators of the groundbreaking documentary "Dream Homes." Currently exhibiting at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Triennial, their film takes us inside three LGBTQIA+ intentional communities reimagining what "home" can mean in America today—not as utopian experiments hidden from society, but as active laboratories creating practical models of care, mutual support, and collective living.
How these communities differ from separatist LGBTQIA+ communes of previous generations
Miss Major's House of GG—a sanctuary offering rest for trans women by a pioneer who created the first safe spaces for trans sex workers
Lupinwood's approach to structure through formal house meetings and clearly defined responsibilities
Ten Cups Farm's revolutionary collective parenting model ensuring adults never run on empty
The radical concept of rest as luxury systematically denied to marginalized people
How these communities respond to prejudice with understanding rather than anger
The documentary's unexpected urgency after Trump's election and what it means for queer communities
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