Stefanie Duguay

Stefanie Duguay is Assistant Professor of Data and Networked Publics in Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on performances of gender and sexual identity through digital media technologies. This has included studies of LGBTQ+ people’s use of social media, dating apps, and platforms for everyday activism. Her research has been published in New Media & Society; Social Media + Society; Information, Communication & Society; Disability & Society; and other international, peer-reviewed journals.

“Queer Eye” And The Neoliberal Myth Of The Self-Made Man

by Stefanie Duguay | Sep 11, 2019

Netflix’s revamp of the classic makeover show Queer Eye, originally called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has received rave reviews. In the eight-episode first season, the “Fab Five” — gay men who are experts in grooming, fashion, culture, design and cooking — pile into a new pick-up truck to scour the Atlanta area for lonely and messy men.