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 Copy Share Image
We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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,… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them.… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
