100 Quotes by Jenna Wortham

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.

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

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

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.

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.

For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.

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

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

As Twitter allows you to curate who shows up in your stream - you only see the people you follow or seek out, and those they interact with - users can create whatever world of people they want to be a part of.