Visibility and Labor Reinvention is labor-intensive. It’s emotional work—navigating the contradictory expectations of fans and critics. It’s intellectual—crafting an alternative narrative that feels coherent. And it’s logistical—retooling networks, managers, collaborators. For Alena Croft to be “new,” she must marshal resources to rewrite how she’s perceived: new collaborators, new mediums, even new vulnerabilities shared on different terms.
