Kyle Hagerty

@clutchkyle.bsky.social

Houston-based Journalist & Science Fiction Author. Life is a lease, negotiate well. Aggies. Arsenal. Astros.

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · last wk.

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially