Paid subscribers who enjoyed my Q&A about aspirational labor and the creator economy can listen to the full interview here. Brooke and I discuss the double standard that female creators face, the current pushback against overwork, and what the role of makeup in the Victorian era says about the fraught history of women and economic exchange.
GUEST BIO: Brooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where she is also a member of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty. Her research interests include digital and social media industries; gender, identity, and inequality; and the impact of new technologies on creative work and labor. She’s the author of two monographs on gender and cultural production, including (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (Yale University Press, 2017), which draws upon research with fashion bloggers, YouTubers, and Instagrammers to explore the cultur…
