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The girlboss was never a feminist ideal

The 2010s turned an eBay hustler into a symbol of corporate feminism she never set out to represent.

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Halina Bennet
Apr 10, 2026
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The original self-proclaimed “girlboss” was an anti-capitalist kleptomaniac from Sacramento who skipped college, couch-surfed, dumpster-dived, and was, by her own account, “dead set on smashing the system” before she turned an $8 jacket from the Salvatio…

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