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A tradwife, dressed in the typical early 1900s stuffy full skirt and apron reserved for rough domestic labor, stands trapped in a frontier-style cabin doorframe, which doubles as a smart phone screen prison. Mouth agape, her arms are pressed up against the glass of the phone screen in anguish whilst surrounded by farm livestock and tools, representing both the ironic harm and self-imprisonment perpetuated by the modern tradwife influencer, and the real harm done to women since the beginning of patriarchy.

Stuck in the Past

Caro Claire Burke’s Thriller Captures a Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.