Teaser The periodic public fascination with Ernie & Bert is not trivia. It is a soft‑focus case of visibility politics: how audiences read intimacy, how institutions manage ambiguity, and how counterpublics translate lived experience into rules that travel. This essay treats the pair as a parable for designing media, school, and platform policies that make … Continue reading 4. Sesame Street as parable: the Ernie–Bert question