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Jenna Wortham
Jenna Wortham
American Journalist
Born: 1981
Internet Me People Time Work World
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce. Jenna Wortham
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When 'Drag Race' first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the show has evolved to reflect America's changing relationship to queer rights and acceptance. Jenna Wortham
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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment. Jenna Wortham
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The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms. Jenna Wortham
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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness. Jenna Wortham
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Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it. Jenna Wortham
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As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever. Jenna Wortham
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It took me years to find a program that kept me in shape: Gyms felt intimidating, and women's magazines seemed tailored for toning the bodies of already trim white women. Jenna Wortham
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I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error. Jenna Wortham
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If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet. Jenna Wortham
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I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker. Jenna Wortham
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Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an idea that is turned into a movie. But I wonder how comfortable we should be with this arrangement. Jenna Wortham
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As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures. Jenna Wortham
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As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book. Jenna Wortham
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The video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own, including those of the Middle East. I was able to see how some women there wanted us to see them: prospering, aware. Jenna Wortham
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Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with. Jenna Wortham
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In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity. Jenna Wortham
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High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students. Jenna Wortham
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For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings. Jenna Wortham
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Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary. Jenna Wortham
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It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality. Jenna Wortham
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Traditional guidebooks have never quite done it for me. Too often, they seem to be aimed at a certain type of comfortable, middle-class traveler. Jenna Wortham
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The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them. Jenna Wortham
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels. Jenna Wortham
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Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art. Jenna Wortham
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The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question. Jenna Wortham
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