“Another word for hustle is ‘survival,’” said Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been pursuing a passion project about Ms. Parton. Women often take on significant caregiving responsibilities on top of paid work and “micro-entrepreneurship,” she said. It’s necessary to acknowledge, but, she added, “we should not valorize it.”Professor McMillan Cottom noted that she was struck by the subject of the ad — a Black woman whose side hustle is dance (she’s making herself a website). That’s at least somewhat accurate, she said. Women of color, especially …
