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Freya India sits down with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Rob Henderson to celebrate her debut book, GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything. The two have a candid conversation about the forces reshaping childhood and identity today—from the monetization of insecurity and the commodification of mental health to the pressures of performative identity online.
Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world, reaching over 50,000 subscribers. She is a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt's newsletter, After Babel, and has contributed to numerous outlets including The New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Free Press.
(Event recorded in New York City on May 13th, 2026.)
Freya India sits down with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Rob Henderson to celebrate her debut book, GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything. The two have a candid conversation about the forces reshaping childhood and identity today—from the monetization of insecurity and the commodification of mental health to the pressures of performative identity online.
Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world, reaching over 50,000 subscribers. She is a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt's newsletter, After Babel, and has contributed to numerous outlets including The New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Free Press.
(Event recorded in New York City on May 13th, 2026.)
