Productivity culture and chronic illness

Subject in Mental Health

Productivity culture and chronic illness has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Good Hang with Amy Poehler. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

What people said

Lena DunhamAmerican writer and actress

  • Dunham argues Hollywood still treats sick performers as defective even if producers no longer say so openly.

    “Maybe a producer would not feel comfortable saying out loud that one's defective. We want a new one. But the but the behavior remains the same”

    Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Lena Dunham (May 26, 2026) · Listen from 24:54

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Podcasts

Episodes

  • Lena Dunham

    Good Hang with Amy Poehler · May 26, 2026 · 1 h 6 min

    Amy Poehler talks with Lena Dunham about turning 40, her memoir Famesick, Nora Ephron, Girls, chronic illness, hot takes and pet pigs, with a visit from Natalie Portman.