The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can’t be ruined – the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
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. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
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. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People in tech love to see their work as embodying the ‘hacker ethos’: a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
It took me years to find a program that kept me in shape: Gyms felt intimidating, and women’s magazines seemed tailored for toning the bodies of already trim white women. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
When ‘Drag Race’ first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the show has evolved to reflect America’s changing relationship to queer rights and acceptance. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
