I went to Stephanie Land’s book launch of Class in NYC.
Don’t even want to read the book, she was rude, uninteresting and her book launch was super dysfunctional. She stared at her feet while people tried to speak with her.
I second everyone’s opinions on Maid: She makes excuses for her poor behavior and everyone else always seems to be the problem in her writing – seems like a massive victim complex and a ton of weaponized incompetence. Her story does not shadow the lives of so many women in this country truly struggling and doing everything they can to change her situation. Don’t waste your $$ - donate the $27 to a cause that will actually support struggling young adults like the union settlement association.
Reading Maid I was rooting for her. Then learned that she had a second child that she could not adequately support or parent. I was/am appalled. When she’s on this book tour, on podcasts and radio, does anyone ever push back about her choices? She’s the current queen of poverty porn and raking it in.
This is all acceptable because she is an upper class white woman who took a small detour into poverty while she was in college (a very novel experience, I hear–being broke in college?? Weren’t we all???) and somehow manifested that into an entire career.
Imagine being so steeped in privilege that being broke for a little bit seemed newsworthy.
Her story wouldn’t have been told, It wouldn’t have been received, if she was a person of color, period.