Selma Blair’s Cane Heard ’Round the World: How One Actress Turned Illness into Global Soft Power
Selma Blair and the Global Business of Being Ill By the time Selma Blair’s cane clicked across the red carpet at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar party, the world had already perfected the art of monetising misfortune. From Syrian refugees live-streaming their border crossings on TikTok to Tokyo office workers crowdfunding funerals, suffering is now…