“…Pushing back against techno-utopian accounts of female empowerment in a digital economy, Brooke Erin Duffy and Emily Hund (2015: 2) theorize how postfeminist norms about ‘individual choice, independence, and modes of self-expression rooted in the consumer marketplace’ limit the kinds of content that women can produce and, on the whole, ‘obscure the labor, discipline, and capital’ necessary to succeed in this digital media market. Any analysis of the work that racial and ethnic minorities perform in digital spaces must, therefore, account for how spaces, bodies, and identities get differentially valued in economic, representational, and affective terms (Abidin, 2016; Sobande, 2020; Stevens, 2021). As we will see, in the case of British South Asian women, the home and the body emerge as fraught terrains on which these processes are worked out.…”