What Does ‘Holding Space’ for ‘Defying Gravity’ Mean, Really? The Viral Meme, Explained

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. You might even work in queer media! And you definitely know that we don’t hold hands with our friends anymore. Now, we delicately clutch one of their long manicured fingers like we are children learning how to use a pencil for the first time.If the above is all gibberish to you, well, keep reading.…If you are not a very online person, the last paragraph has probably left you wondering what is going on.

Allow me to explain. This week, our collective obsession features a particularly surreal moment that occurred during Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.During her interview with the Wicked stars, queer media’s star of the hour, Tracy E.

Gilchrist, a journalist from , made a comment that was so very online, so very therapy-speak, and so very 2024 that it has since shaken the world: “This week, people are taking the lyrics to ‘Defying Gravity’ and really holding space with that and feeling power in that,” Gilchrist said—with the sort of quiet solemnity befitting such a groundbreaking statement.Erivo instantly welled up—seemingly out of habit more than anything else.

Grande looked confused and a little concerned. “Uh, I didn’t know that that was happening,” Erivo whispered back with wide-eyed reverence.“I’ve seen it, yeah,” Gilchrist whispered back with a knowing smile.“That’s…really powerful,” Erivo said, beginning to smile, her hand, complete with its signature green manicure, held against her heart. “That’s…what I wanted.”Erivo then turned to Grande who, to her credit, looked just as confused as the rest of us.