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All Work and No Pay? An Interview with Alec Dudson on Kickstarting a Magazine Devoted to Creative Interns
Being a 20 something female in a male dominated profession, working unpaid and trying to prove yourself professionally is, well, stupid hard. While trying to justify and earn respect for your creative voice, you constantly have to evaluate the role of your own sexuality along with it. Too sexy, emotional, or generally feminine, earns you no respect or advancement while dowdy or butch means you'll either go unnoticed or thought of as hard to work with. Characteristics that might be thought of as "ambitious and driven" in a male intern can translate to "up-ity and domineering" and a female. Of course, this isn't an intern specific problem; women live with this dualism constantly. But when you combine this with the competition and lack of pay that goes into internships, I think this becomes a legitimate issue for discussion.