In one word: complicated laurenduca
In 2019, journalist and feminist Lauren Duca wore *a lot* of hats: published author , University professor, subject of a now viral BuzzFeed profile by writer Scaachi Koul, political activist, white feminist and, perhaps her most notable hat of all, person on the internet. Because if you did come across Duca’s name over the past year, chances are it was online and not in a super-favourable light.
Which, to be clear, isn’t something that’s unique to public-facing figures, which Duca acknowledges. Any given person is subjected to different narratives by different people; she just faces a more “grotesque” version of it, she says.And it’s all the chatter around just exactly *who* Lauren Duca is that gets in the way of the message she is trying to get across in her work and how people interact with it.
She understands why people put her under such scrutiny…kind of One of the main criticisms facing Duca is that she holds people to a high standard that she herself doesn’t meet . Which she can understand—to an extent. “I have a lot of influence; I hook a lot of people’s attention, and I think that I do deserve a higher level of scrutiny because people are engaged with my thoughts,” she says. But the line has to be drawn somewhere, and, says Duca, people have gone way beyond that line.
While Duca says she didn’t “remotely” expect this level of notoriety when Teen Vogue clicked “publish” on her Trump article, “When I look at it in retrospect, it feels like this otherworldly origin story to me,” she says. “My life is very much before and after.” And the “after” portion is something she has chosen to lean into. “I didn’t choose this to begin with,” she says of her notoriety, “[but] at this point I am choosing to maintain it.
But there’s a silver lining to the hate All of this is not to say that Duca hasn’t found some silver lining in her online notoriety. “This experience of being so public-facing has just fundamentally changed me forever,” she says. To start, all the scrutiny has made her less concerned with what people think of her.
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