Jenna Wortham

A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.

— Jenna Wortham

The video-sharing app Vine was the first place I got a glimpse of cultures beyond my own, including those of the Middle…

— Jenna Wortham

SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music…

— Jenna Wortham

When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Traditional guidebooks have never quite done it for me. Too often, they seem to be aimed at a certain type of comfortable,…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity…

— Jenna Wortham

Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up…

— Jenna Wortham

The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still…

— Jenna Wortham

When 'Drag Race' first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has…

— Jenna Wortham

The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

— Jenna Wortham

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to…

— Jenna Wortham

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang…

— Jenna Wortham

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as…

— Jenna Wortham

We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being…

— Jenna Wortham

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into…

— Jenna Wortham

TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable - sheer access…

— Jenna Wortham

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I…

— Jenna Wortham

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without…

— Jenna Wortham

I'm not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

— Jenna Wortham

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have…

— Jenna Wortham

It took me years to find a program that kept me in shape: Gyms felt intimidating, and women's magazines seemed tailored for…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.

— Jenna Wortham

I came to 'RuPaul's Drag Race' late: I didn't get into the show until its fourth or fifth season.

— Jenna Wortham

In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out…

— Jenna Wortham

There's a lot of paranormal activity in my family. Whether it is more than most other families is hard to say, but…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but…

— Jenna Wortham