Jenna Wortham

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not…

— Jenna Wortham

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the…

— Jenna Wortham

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a…

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

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

— Jenna Wortham

Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don't seem to want to pay big money for access…

— Jenna Wortham

Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune…

— Jenna Wortham

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

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

Established technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have expanded their reach and influence throughout the world. And while many countries have…

— 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

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

— Jenna Wortham

There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small…

— Jenna Wortham

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production…

— Jenna Wortham

Thinking about Amazon's restraints - the company has never tried to introduce a social network or an email service, for example -…

— Jenna Wortham

The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of…

— Jenna Wortham

For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to…

— Jenna Wortham

I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by…

— Jenna Wortham

Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass…

— Jenna Wortham

Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some…

— Jenna Wortham

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't…

— Jenna Wortham

Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who…

— Jenna Wortham

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

— Jenna Wortham

The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack…

— Jenna Wortham

For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems…

— Jenna Wortham

It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways…

— Jenna Wortham

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing…

— 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

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

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

— Jenna Wortham

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

— 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

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 was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any…

— 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

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

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the…

— 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

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them,…

— Jenna Wortham