Bardot Smith

Bardot Smith is the alias of an analyst, entrepreneur, and demimondaine living on the East Coast. She focuses her time on private consulting, media and writing on economics and desire under capitalism. She is the founder of MISTRES.SE, an agency designed to build the modern technical and financial infrastructure for the adult industry.

Pieces

Still from Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money music video. Rihanna lies in an opulent trunk full of cash, covered in blood, smoking a blunt on a lush yard.

Give Your Money To Women: The End Game of Capitalism

#GiveYourMoneyToWomen is more than a hashtag, it’s a theory and practical framework of gender justice.

Building pillars of the New York Stock Exchange, rich with gold accents.

Sex, Money, and the Trillion Dollar Shadow

Sex workers have long driven major revolutions in technology. They have also been at the forefront of innovating new business models for content, communications, and services themselves.

A man in a business suit, adjusting his tie, his face turned from the camera.

Silicon Valley’s Cult of Male Ego

It creates an environment where a woman’s sexuality is an item for public consumption, a thing which can be approved of or rejected, valued or denigrated by the community.