Sidra Kamran is a PhD candidate in Sociology at The New School, where she explores how contemporary capitalism both creates and burdens new forms of social life in cities in the Global South. Her dissertation project is an ethnographic study of relational life in two interactive service workplaces in Karachi: an all-female traditional bazaar consisting of beauty salons and lingerie shops; and a contemporary, mixed-gender, department store. As a Heilbroner Fellow, she will map and analyze the shifting terrain of social reproduction in the lives of working-class beauty and retail workers. This project aims to shed light on the changing permutations of reproductive and productive labor. Prior to joining The New School, Sidra worked as a research assistant at the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi. She is more broadly interested in exploring the connections between economy and intimacy.