Author Profile
Jenna Wortham
1981 • American • Journalist
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Showing 64 quotesDrag 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.— 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
The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.— Jenna Wortham
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
I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.— Jenna Wortham
There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.— Jenna Wortham
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
Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.— 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 on to any future offspring.— 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
For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.— Jenna Wortham
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.— Jenna Wortham
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.— 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 centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.— 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 her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.— 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 to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.— Jenna Wortham
As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.— Jenna Wortham