Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and the author of Virtue Hoarders, a seminal critique of the professional–managerial class. Her Substack community, CLIU ANON is a safe space for recovering liberals and aspiring class traitors, and her central point of publication on everything from the hipster onesie to the accelerationist dream city. Her recent series, Gangster Capitalism, examined how private equity's tactics of domination and coercion mirror those of real and fictional criminal organizations—unfolding across seminars, events, and even merch. A staple of left political discourse, Liu's work frequently appears in Damage Magazine, Compact Mag, and on Doomscroll. Her forthcoming book, Traumatized: The New Politics of Suffering (Verso), explores the liberal relationship to victimization and its aversion to class solidarity.