Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College, Albany, New York, USA. She is the author of Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body (New York University Press, 2015). She has published articles and book chapters on gender and subcultures in journals such as Sexualities, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Asian Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, Journal of Bisexuality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry.

In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers.