Celebrities Have Nothing Left to Offer Us

The rich and famous once offered escapism. Now they’re just a constant reminder of how unequal things are.

Eve Peyser
GEN
Published in
6 min readMay 28, 2020

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Illustration: Agnes Ricart

As a longtime consumer of all things celebrity, I’ve been using famous people to escape from myself for as long as I can remember. When I was little, celebrities were my own personal Barbie dolls. My sister and I…

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Eve Peyser
GEN
Writer for

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