The big, controversial business of The Wing, explained

By Anna North and Chavie Lieber

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The Wing is an interior designer’s Instagram-perfect fantasy.

The books on the walls are color-coded. The plants are lush. The bathrooms are stocked with luxury beauty products. On a recent visit to the SoHo location of the women’s club and coworking space, sunlight bathed millennial-pink furniture as, one floor below, construction finished on a childcare center.

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But some have argued that by charging several hundred dollars a month for membership — and requiring would-be members to apply for admission — The Wing has put its benefits out of reach of the very women who could use them most, especially women of color and low-income women.

The company focuses on advancing “the type of woman who could readily and easily afford to spend over $2,000 a year,” according to Kaitlyn Borysiewicz, who wrote a critique of The Wing in April 2018 at the Melanin Collective, a website dedicated to women of color that she co-founded.

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