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Jenna Wortham
American
Journalist
Born:
1981
Internet
Me
People
Time
Work
World
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Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
Jenna Wortham
Day
Social Media
Overwhelming
One Day
Dazzling
Material
Array
Source
Source Material
Historians
Offer
Social
Might
Even
Media
Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.
Jenna Wortham
Phones
World
Our
Secrets
Booths
Touch
Also
Diaries
Just
Us
Keep
Deepest
The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it.
Jenna Wortham
Time
Freedom
Conversation
Vision
Police
Internet
Thought
Adequately
Web
Architects
Small
Could
Empower
Without
Still
Governed
Pioneers
Anyone
Gaming
Forum
Users
Fought
Earliest
Needing
Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.
Jenna Wortham
Daily
Wellness
World
Will
Practice
Accident
Those
Must
More
Came
Susceptible
Happen
Realize
Us
Who
Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.
Jenna Wortham
Future
Learning
People
Gift
Wish
Live
Other
Meeting
Extremely
Has-Been
Only
Freeing
Pass
Been
Expectations
Offspring
Any
When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours, laughing while her daughter took insane-looking selfies on my phone.
Jenna Wortham
Best
Family
Phone
Daughter
Down
Virginia
Took
Visited
Laughing
Best Friend
Hours
Friend
Mall
While
Sat
Near
Her
The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
Jenna Wortham
Humanity
People
Internet
Adept
Memes
Easy
Posts
Making
Forget
Behind
Tweets
Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
Jenna Wortham
Work
Political
Long
Awareness
Our
Introspection
Economic
Forces
Cultural
Current
Artists
Urged
Creating
Landscape
Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.
Jenna Wortham
Technology
Problems
Too
Software
Our
Way
Machinery
About
Cost
Rely
Allies
New
Come
Perhaps
Without
New Ones
Fix
Wondering
Us
Creating
Deeply
For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.
Jenna Wortham
Work
Time
Best
Myself
Care
Sleeping
Eating
Taking
Were
Years
Up
Showering
Many
Showing
Showing Up
Inconvenience
Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
Jenna Wortham
Twitter
Changed
Way
Define
Participate
Said
How
Done
Who
Even
Activism
There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.
Jenna Wortham
Black
Seen
Thrive
Twitter
Books
States
About
Silver
Small
Shared
Mainstream
Terrain
Celebrated
Person
Gets
Being
Screens
Much
Ignored
United
United States
Museums
Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.
Jenna Wortham
Respond
Visuals
Winking
Through
Emotion
Message
Oceans
Text
Transmitted
Sequence
Hardwired
Humans
It wasn't always easy - getting dumped by my female friends for their newfound boyfriends, husbands, girlfriends stung; I felt like a jilted lover, heartbroken and wondering what I'd done wrong. But it was also easier to forgive them, to accept what time and energy they were willing to offer, even if it was less than what I wanted.
Jenna Wortham
Time
Energy
Lover
Easier
Willing
Easy
Husbands
Girlfriends
Wrong
Like
Stung
Also
Accept
Felt
Female
Always
Boyfriend
Were
Dumped
Friends
Heartbroken
Offer
Than
Forgive
Wondering
Done
Getting
Wanted
Them
Less
Even
Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.
Jenna Wortham
Love
Women
School
Thought
Girl
Group
Others
Our
Spent
Thoroughly
Out
Outfits
Some
About
Habit
Weekends
Head
Over
Bedrooms
Falling
Five
Middle
Middle School
Heels
Even
Each
Grown
Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed.
Jenna Wortham
Thanksgiving
Man
Job
Big
Frame
Everyone
Once
Sliding
Hey
Neighbor
Laughed
Onto
No-One
Between
She
Cousin
Off
Comment
Just
Wandered
Acknowledge
In-Between
While
Turkey
Worked
Meat
Plate
Even
Her
I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.
Jenna Wortham
People
Speak
Remember
Black
Girl
Long
White
Other
Identified
Which
Means
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