Top 66 Jenna Wortham Quotes

As Twitter allows you to curate who shows up in your stream – you only see the people you follow or seek out, and those they interact with – users can create whatever world of people they want to be a part of.

For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.

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.

I’m not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called ”The Grind Workout.”

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it’s different for every person who wants to practice it.

The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don’t include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.

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.

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

Established technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have expanded their reach and influence throughout the world. And while many countries have pushed back against that spread, our government has essentially left them alone.

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don’t hesitate to report and block.

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

I experimented with every kind of class possible – yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing – but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

In person, RuPaul is warm, funny, personable – someone who thoroughly enjoys life.

The future will bring new possibilities and ideas – and new terms for them.

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.

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.

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world – my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.

Obama routinely pushed policy that pleased the tech-savvy, including his successful effort to keep broadband suppliers from giving preferential treatment to bigger web companies over individuals.

I’m partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

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.

Matching tattoos don’t ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.

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.

The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

Thinking about Amazon’s restraints – the company has never tried to introduce a social network or an email service, for example – you can understand something about the future Amazon seems to envision: A time when no screen is needed at all, just your voice.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

The most moving parts of ‘Real American’ come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.

Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don’t seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low.

‘Drag Race’ has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like ‘black-ish’ works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.

Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.

Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

‘Drag Race’ has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world’s vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.

Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Tootsie,’ ‘The Birdcage’ – even ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ – have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.

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.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

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.

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.

For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.

Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.

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.

The radical power of ‘queer’ always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.

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.

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.

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.

Luckily, my only responsibility for ‘Still Processing’ is to show up and talk.

I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I’ve known and invite other people to tell me their stories.