Stephen Fontenot wrote this generous article about my collaboration with Dr. Sabrina Starnaman on our project, The Laboring Self for The UT Dallas Magazine, “Professors Collaboration on Plight of ‘Invisible’ Workers.”
Here are some of my favorite parts:
“We meet an amazing cross-section of people at the DMA, and talk about their jobs,” Starnaman said. “And whenever we’ve brought up this project with UTD students, we learn many of them work via the sharing economy. You’ll witness this moment of connection — sometimes, it’s not until you see how your work interacts with the world that you really understand what you’ve made.”
As part of the exhibit, there are cardboard worker hands that visitors can write on to tell their stories.
“We ask the community, ‘How does work affect your body?’ People respond in Sharpie, some people even embroider, and that gets added to the exhibit,” Burrough said.