Claire Shaffer is a writer and archivist from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn. Her past bylines include Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Pitchfork. She earned her MA in moving image archiving and preservation from NYU in 2023.

Claire Shaffer

I Had Become the Target: On Taylor Swift and the Power of Revisionism

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Claire Shaffer is a writer and archivist from Los Angeles who lives in Brooklyn. Her past bylines include Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Pitchfork. She earned her MA in moving image archiving and preservation from NYU in 2023.

Claire Shaffer

Articles

I Had Become the Target: On Taylor Swift and the Power of Revisionism