Rachel o'dwyer

I’m a writer and a lecturer in Digital Cultures in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. I'm previously a Research Fellow in Connect, Trinity College Dublin a Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Research Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar at UC Irvine. 

My debut book, Tokens, was published by Verso in 2023 and Longlisted for the FT book of the year award and a best book of 2023 for Wired, GQ and LA Times.  

At present I’m writing a lot about how young women manage their money and negotiate the boundaries between monetary and intimate economies at a time when dreams of 'the good life' are starting to fray – Trad Wives shilling financial dependence, girlfriends asking their partners for money on TikTok, Streamers and cam models earning money via wish lists and special tokens. This is the topic of my next book, provisionally titled Disaster Girls. 

I’m a regular contributor to The Irish Times where I write columns about the economy and social life. Other recent publications include articles in Aeon, The London Review of Books, The Journal of Cultural Economy, Convergence, Longreads, and The MIT Press.